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Lopez Peiro Belen
Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
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Description: A fractured account of family abuse secrets and the cost of pursuing the truth. In the most private spaces the most intimate betrayals occur. Bel n L pez Peir places us squarely in the tenderest of times young teenagehood in a home about to be ruptured by sexual assault. In this home for this young woman your assailant is your uncle and also a police commissioner. The people who shelter you will reject you: your mother is his sister - in - law your beloved aunt his wife and your cousin and friend his daughter. And the truth of what happened will depend entirely on you. Why Did You Come Back Every Summer is a document of uncertainty self - doubt and the appearance of progress when there is none. A chorus of voices interrupt and overtake each other; interviews and reports are filed. The truth will be heard but how and by whom? Loyalties will shift and slip. And certain questions have no easy answers. What do you owe to your family? What do they owe you? How far will you go to get yourself back?
Title: Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
Author(s): Lopez Peiro Belen
Publisher: Charco Press
Barcode: 9781913867805
Pages: 188 Pages, No
Publication Date: 4/9/2024
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: A fractured account of family abuse secrets and the cost of pursuing the truth. In the most private spaces the most intimate betrayals occur. Bel n L pez Peir places us squarely in the tenderest of times young teenagehood in a home about to be ruptured by sexual assault. In this home for this young woman your assailant is your uncle and also a police commissioner. The people who shelter you will reject you: your mother is his sister - in - law your beloved aunt his wife and your cousin and friend his daughter. And the truth of what happened will depend entirely on you. Why Did You Come Back Every Summer is a document of uncertainty self - doubt and the appearance of progress when there is none. A chorus of voices interrupt and overtake each other; interviews and reports are filed. The truth will be heard but how and by whom? Loyalties will shift and slip. And certain questions have no easy answers. What do you owe to your family? What do they owe you? How far will you go to get yourself back?
Title: Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
Author(s): Lopez Peiro Belen
Publisher: Charco Press
Barcode: 9781913867805
Pages: 188 Pages, No
Publication Date: 4/9/2024
Category: Fiction In Translation