‘Raw and emotionally fraught.’ Leslie Zemeckis, bestselling author of Feuding Fan Dancers
Most of them are dead.
Silence is broken and the secret unearthed.
Surviving the Cajun Curse, her mentally ill momma calls her, Baby Darlin’. Pig calls her Brillo and takes away her innocence by using her to escape his own twisted mind. Her cousin Willy, calls her Snaggle but she doesn’t care, she thinks they will marry someday. Her Papa, a recovered alcoholic, her hero. Her Grandma, the ever present Shamer, is a dark shadow to remind her of her worth. Her drug & love addiction takes her through a series of abusive love stories and finally she proudly escapes into the loving arms of a higher power.
This illustrated memoir brutally rips off the bandaid and exposes the stigma around child sexual abuse, with compassion and insight through the eyes of a brave little girl, Baby Darlin’.
Tentang Penulis
Alycia Vreeland is a writer, artist/illustrator, Elementary Art Specialist, residing in Santa Barbara, Ca. Vreeland’s art is featured in the documentaries, The Cure, and Guns, Bombs, War, A Love Story and journals, Tuck Magazine, Rebelle Society, Painted Cave and The Montecito Journal. She is the creator of Didi Rock’s Greeting Cards, inspired in the spirit of empowering women. Often Vreeland’s inspiration comes from being the proud mother of her amazing son, an exceptionally gifted musician and composer, and also her two lovely bonus daughters. In addition, Vreeland often collaborated on various writing and illustration projects with her late husband, writer Jon Vreeland, like their poetry collection and llustration collaboration, Laughing in her Sleep. Visit: alyciavreeland.com.
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