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Believe Like a Child by Paige Dearth
Summary:
Alessa is just seven
years old when her uncle rapes her for the first time. As the years
pass, his sexual appetite becomes more voracious and his perversion more
twisted, until the abuse has become almost a daily ritual, with the
unspoken involvement of the girl's mother. At the age of sixteen, after
the death of her only friend, Alessa finds herself at the mercy of her
real-life monster, with no relief in sight. She flees her home to
escape this hell, only to find herself descending into a more dangerous
one. Alone and helpless in the streets of North Philadelphia, she
encounters more human predators who want to take over her life and
devour her. About to hit rock bottom, Alessa manages to break away from
her new tormentors and finds refuge in a shelter for homeless and
abused women. Wherever she goes, however, trouble keeps seeking her out,
until she meets three people who change the course of her life forever.
Though Alessa's bittersweet journey is perpetually fraught with
challenges, she does, nevertheless, manage to find fleeting moments of
joy along the way. But as she begins to settle down, a ghost from the
past comes to haunt her again, threatening to destroy the very
foundation of her small world and plunging her back into an abyss of
despair, until she makes her final bid for escape.
Why it's on my wishlist...
Believe Like a Child is on my wishlist because I have always liked reading books with touchy subjects. I don't mind crying over a book as long as I've learned something or can take something from it. I also enjoy seeing if an author can actually pull off writing a book about the topic at hand. And if they can't, what could they do to improve it?
What are you wishing for?
1 comment:
That is a really hard subject matter to deal with. Even reading the blurb makes me cringe. Anyways, I hope you read it so I can read your review of it.
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