The Taste of Anger - A Memoir

"I'll kill the first person who comes through this door." My father grips a baseball bat in his meaty hands. It is 1962 and Diane is three years old when her violent father moves their family--her, her pregnant mother, and her six siblings--to a remote farm in Upstate New York. There, she grabs the reader by the hand and takes them to the broken-down barns, barren fields, and rows of bunk beds in her rat-infested attic bedroom as she questions all that feels wrong about her new world. She watches her ever-pregnant mother grow emotionally colder with each new baby and wonders, Where is she when he swings his fists, his steel-toed boot, or a crowbar? Forced to perform adult manual labor in between the erratic beatings she and her siblings pound on one another to release their own aggressions, she asks herself, Is this what we've become? What I've become? Narrated in the ever-hopeful voice of a child, The Taste of Anger explores in raw, unflinching detail how years of isolation, oppression, and the threat of retaliation create an environment in which family secrets are guarded at all costs. Tension is palpable with the turning of each page, ensuring that the reader won't let go of Diane's hand until she gets an answer to her most urgent question of all: Who will rescue us?

General

Imprint:	She Writes Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2024
Authors:	Diane Parnell
Dimensions:	215 x 139mm (L x W)
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-64742-684-2
Categories:	Books Promotions > Loot Warehouse Clearance Sale > Books
LSN:	1-64742-684-7
Barcode:	9781647426842

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