Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You

Sue William Silverman

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"With great courage and startling compassion, Silverman tells [her] story. . . . Harrowing in its depiction of savage violation and profoundly moving in its portrait of a child's fear, confusion, and desperate search for a safe place."
—Kirkus Reviews

"This harrowing memoir gives voice to the inarticulate terror Silverman suffered as a child, when she could never find the right words to describe her situation. She has found them now."
—Booklist


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Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You destroys our complacency about who among us can commit unspeakable atrocities, who is subjected to them, and who can stop them. From age four to eighteen, Sue William Silverman was repeatedly sexually abused by her father, an influential government official and successful banker. Through her eyes, we see an outwardly normal family built on a foundation of horrifying secrets that long went unreported, undetected, and unconfessed.
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Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction

Page count: 288 pp.
Illustrated
Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5
  

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List price: $18.95
978-0-8203-2175-2
9/2/1999

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Sue William Silverman is a professional speaker on child abuse and addiction. She is a faculty advisor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and the associate editor of the journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. Silverman is also the author of Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction (made into a Lifetime TV movie), a poetry collection Hieroglyphics in Neon, and Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir.