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380 pages, Hardcover
First published July 28, 2015
The woman rolls her eyes, closes the file before her and says to me, "This alleged sexual abuse. Tell me about that."
The first time I see her, she is standing at the Fullerton Station, on the train platform, clutching an infant in her arms. She braces herself and the baby as the purple line express soars past and out to Linden. It's the 8th of April, forty-eight degrees and raining. The rain lurches down from the sky, here, there and everywhere, the wind untamed and angry. A bad day for hair.
I cringe. I hate that word. Menstruating. Menstruation. Menstrual flow. The idea of my daughter wearing tampons, or me having to hear about it for that matter, fills me with dread.It would be one thing if Chris was positioned as the villain, but he’s not. It’d be another thing if the book was about how he psychologically abused his daughter, but she’s mostly an afterthought throughout the book. It’s just him campaigning for Father of the Year, I guess.