Gaining a Sense of Self
- ISBN-10
- 1921642920
- ISBN-13
- 9781921642920
- Category
- Adult child abuse victims
- Pages
- 445
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-01-01
- Author
- Karen Laura-Lee Wilson
Description
Karen Laura-Lee Wilson's memoir is a detailed and gut-wrenching account of her first twenty-five years growing up in a sole-parent family with a narcissistic mother. Embedded in her story are universal themes of abandonment, love, hate, determination, optimism and endurance. Importantly, she also highlights the disastrous consequences divorce and abuse can have on children. Mostly set in Brisbane, Australia during the 1950s and 1960s, her journey is a search for identity. Karen entices her readers to accompany her on this gritty journey through years of hunger, poverty, self-doubt and deprivation of mother-love. Eventually Karen finds her own path through education, positive and negative sexual relationships and travel.
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