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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #10669 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-03-06
- Released on: 2012-03-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Product Description
At eight-years-old, Tuesday Storm's childhood is forever lost when tragedy sends her family spiraling out of control into irrevocable dysfunction. For no apparent reason, she's singled out from her siblings, blamed for her family's problems and targeted for unspeakable abuse. The loving environment she's come to know becomes an endless nightmare of twisted punishments as she's forced to confront the dark cruelty lurking inside the mother she idolizes. Based on a true story, Call Me Tuesday recounts, with raw emotion, a young girl's physical and mental torment at the mercy of the monster in her mother's clothes--a monster she doesn't know how to stop loving. Tuesday's painful journey through the hidden horrors of child abuse will open your eyes, and her unshakable love for her parents will tug at your heartstrings.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A voice calls out in the wilderness
By David Lloyd
This is a book which is difficult to read at times - for the pain in the writing is so poignant and artfully expressed. A pain that most people would probably want to forget and leave behind. But the author knows that she has a story to tell, a story that needs to be told, so that others may be spared the trauma that Tuesday went through. Which requires remarkable courage, in going through it all - not once, but twice - this second time page by written page.We usually view motherhood as something sacred, but in "Call Me Tuesday" motherhood is anything but that. The book begins with a pivotal event, where her mother appears as an inhuman monster and Tuesday is at the height of her despair. We are then taken back to a much earlier time, when her mother was still a loving parent and Tuesday had not yet been robbed of her childhood. This is skilfully done, for we know that at some point in the book, we will reach that point again. But for now, it is for us to try and put the pieces together, in such a way that may somehow explain the change in her mother, and in her life. And as we go through a journey of mental and physical abuse together with Tuesday, witnessing the world through her eyes, we are unable to find the answers. Even after Tuesday has managed to break free, neither she nor we are any closer to understanding how such a thing can happen.For how can a mother abuse her child? Day by day, year by year. Mothers are supposed to protect their children, care for them and nurture them. Children trust and believe in their parents, and when a parent turns on them, the child is helpless, with nowhere to turn. In most cases, the people nearby: neighbours, relatives, teachers... sense that something is wrong, but do nothing to help, perhaps not wanting to believe that such things are possible. And even now, I am sure that there are people who read this book and rationalize it away as being a solitary case. But the truth is, this is becoming much too common. Perhaps it has always been this widespread, and only now, in the digital age when new avenues of communication open up to us, it is much more difficult to keep such things hidden. Hopefully books, like this one, will encourage others to speak up, have the courage and support to unveil these dark secrets.The book is very well written. We see Tuesday's world totally through her own eyes. The detailed descriptions of her surroundings effortlessly blend into the running plot and we are carried along, not able to put the book down - not wanting to hear more at times for it becomes almost too difficult to hear - but having to see it through, for we have come too close to Tuesday's inner turmoil than to desert her now.Perhaps another testament to the strength of Tuesday's character is the fact that she can still feel love for her mother, despite all that has happened to her. Maybe we need to learn from her. I, for one, think I could never be that forgiving.I hope that others will read this book and learn from it. And that those in dire need of help will come upon it and through it find strength. And that Tuesday, after breaking free and setting out on a new beginning, will now live a happy life.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.Very well written and poignant
By Tracey Young
I would recommend this book to anyone who has suffered extreme childhood emotional and physical abuse. Though hard to read at times- the majority of the time actually- it identifies the survivor in all of us. It shows the strength we have to reclaim our name and our identity.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Another in CHILD ABUSE Genre
By The Kindle Book Review
It used to be that no one discussed child abuse. Now, it is a topic that is frequently touched upon. In the child abuse genre, there are three sub-categories: the author needs to write a memoir for a catharsis; the author writes a thinly veiled novel based on their own experiences; and finally, the author tells a story of getting a law passed or becoming a therapist and helping future children. This book falls into the second category of a thinly veiled novel/memoir.The book is written in the style of a memoir, and I wish it had been an actual memoir. There was no reason to disguise the story. But for a first book, Ms. Byrne did a great job. She has writing talent.If you are an aficionado of child abuse stories, this is a good one. If you're new to the genre, this is a good starter book since it is so well-written. It is easy and flippant to say that the victim, in this case, Tuesday, wasn't assertive enough, or didn't press other adults hard enough. But when a child is in the situation, a child can instinctively realize that any roof over your head is usually better than running away, being out on the streets all alone, sleeping on park benches, etc. Tuesday didn't leave until she was 15, when her father finally transplanted her into the care of a wonderful relative. Ms. Byrne delineates the normal reactions of outsiders: disbelief, fear of involvement, and the presumption that the child is bad. She also did not forget to detail the after-effects of abuse that continue long after it's over, and the strange ways they can manifest.I received this book for free in order to review it for The Kindle Book Review website. I am in no way affiliated with either the author or any publisher(s).-- Java Davis, the Kindle Book Review
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