How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060820993 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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A story I could relate with I always find it interesting when people criticize others for telling their stories. I always thought that's what memoirs are about. Silly me. I guess it won't be surprising if Jessica Hendra takes some hits for this one. She is, after all, sharing par. A powerful memoir I found this book to be an engrossing memoir of growing up in the Seventies in New York, and although incest was certainly the catalyst for writing it, the main focus is on this particular family's bohemian lifestyle rather than the actual incidents of. Jaime said Heartfelt, amusing and gripping. Okay, I didn't expect to like this book. I'm not into tell-alls and that's what I figured this one would be. It's not. The story is obviously built around Jessica Hendra's decision to finally challenge her father after he professed that he had earned s
The narrative shifts smoothly between Jessica's childhood with her self-sacrificing mother, her stoic sister and her charismatic, substance-abusing, philandering, volatile father, and her later life as a wife and mother coping with the aftereffects of having been allegedly molested by that same father. Probably Mr. . Jessica Hendra's response to her father's acclaimed confession of sexual transgression, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul (2004), is a "my turn memoir" like Leaving a Doll's House by Claire Bloom, who set the record straight on Philip Roth, or What Falls Away by Mia F
After more than thirty years of silence, Jessica faced a harrowing choice. The book detailed his life as a comedian who helped launch the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase, wrote for and edited The National Lampoon, and performed in such cult classics as This Is Spinal Tap, even as he overindulged in alcohol and drugs. But there was a glaring omission in his supposed tell-all confessional: the sexual abuse of his daughter Jessica. Against the backdrop of the 1970s New York comedy scene, the memoir traces Jessica's journey from a lost and abused child to a young woman struggling with bulimia and anorexia to the mother of two who becomes convinced that challenging her father is the only way to reclaim a life that never seemed her own.. In this powerful book, she reveals how she came to the decision to publicly confront her father, sacrificing any hope of reconciling with him and setting into motion a New York Times investigation that shocked the literary world when it broke the story of abuse. But Jessica's account is neither a minor footnote nor an angry response to her dad's bestseller. How to Cook Your Daughter -- titled after a satirical piece her father wrote only a few months before the abuse began -- is an unflinching and unsentimental look at a childhood that never was, set in a time and place straight from the pages of the outrageous magazine that her father helped to
Jessica Hendra lives with her husband and two daughters in Los Angeles, California.