"Stunning . . . . This is an immensely courageous story that will
break your heart, leave you in tears, and, finally, offer hope and
redemption. Brava, Kelly Sundberg." -Rene Denfeld, author of The
Child Finder In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the
raw honesty and devastating openness of The Glass Castle and The
Liar's Club, a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a
love story into a shocking tale of abuse-examining the tenderness
and violence entwined in the relationship, why she endured years of
physical and emotional pain, and how she eventually broke free.
"You made me hit you in the face," he said mournfully. "Now
everyone is going to know." "I know," I said. "I'm sorry." Kelly
Sundberg's husband, Caleb, was a funny, warm, supportive man and a
wonderful father to their little boy Reed. He was also vengeful and
violent. But Sundberg did not know that when she fell in love, and
for years told herself he would get better. It took a decade for
her to ultimately accept that the partnership she desired could not
work with such a broken man. In her remarkable book, she offers an
intimate record of the joys and terrors that accompanied her long,
difficult awakening, and presents a haunting, heartbreaking glimpse
into why women remain too long in dangerous relationships. To
understand herself and her violent marriage, Sundberg looks to her
childhood in Salmon, a small, isolated mountain community known as
the most redneck town in Idaho. Like her marriage, Salmon is a
place of deep contradictions, where Mormon ranchers and hippie
back-to-landers live side-by-side; a place of magical beauty riven
by secret brutality; a place that takes pride in its individualism
and rugged self-sufficiency, yet is beholden to church and communal
standards at all costs. Mesmerizing and poetic, Goodbye, Sweet Girl
is a harrowing, cautionary, and ultimately redemptive tale that
brilliantly illuminates one woman's transformation as she gradually
rejects the painful reality of her violent life at the hands of the
man who is supposed to cherish her, begins to accept responsibility
for herself, and learns to believe that she deserves better.
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