In Waka Hirako’s 'My Broken Mariko,' Tomoyo, a young professional woman, is shocked to learn that Mariko, her closest friend, has committed suicide. But Tomoyo also knows Mariko’s father has abused her since she was a child. In this 8-page excerpt, Tomoyo decides to she avenge the unnecessary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
This week on The Literary Life, live audio of Mitchell Kaplan sitting down with Eve Ensler, Tony Award-winning playwright, activist, and author of The Vagina Monologues, at the 2019 Miami Book Fair to discuss her new autobiography The Apology. “There’s no justification for what my father did or... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-03 09:47:23 UTC ]
Pushkin Press has bought Dutch literary bestseller by Manon Uphoff, a novel based on her own childhood experience of an abusive father. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-30 20:11:45 UTC ]
“I needed to understand what led my father to do what he did,” the “Vagina Monologues” playwright says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-05-11 11:00:00 UTC ]
Virago has pre-empted an "astounding" memoir by Syrian activist Loubna Mrie, who took on the Assad regime and her own abusive father. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]