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Swallow the Ocean - Laura M. Flynn
Swallow the Ocean
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Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura’s father of trying to win her over to the side of Satan, or buying only... show more
Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura’s father of trying to win her over to the side of Satan, or buying only certain products that were evil-free, glimmers of her mother’s future paranoia grew brighter as Laura’s early years passed. Once her husband left the family and filed for divorce, Sally’s symptoms bloomed in earnest, and the three girls united in flights of fancy of the sort their mother had taught them in order to deflect danger. Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is a searing, beautifully written memoir of a childhood under siege and three young girls determined to survive. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781582433851 (1582433852)
Publisher: Counterpoint
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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4.0 Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir
Really moving look into the family of a Paranoid Schizophrenic. The before, during and after was both educational and heartbreaking.
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This was loaned to me by a friend, for reasons I haven't quite discerned. I've never read many memoirs, other than the comic variety. Recent scandals only have strengthened the idea that most memoirists are self-aggrandizing liars. This really didn't seem that way. The book tells the story of the au...
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