Leona Tockey: Forget the Night: Awakening in a Memory of Incest

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Leona Tockey : Forget the Night: Awakening in a Memory of Incest

Life Arrow, Santa Clara, California, 1995

ISBN 0964692104

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. M6 - A hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, some scattered light smudges, scratches and scuffing, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 339 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. FORGET THE NIGHT is a moving and poignant novel of incest, revealed from the heartfelt experience of the child. With love, compassion and humor, the reader is invited to share the intimate truth, within her incestuous family. Geographically set in western Montana, Jenny's story reveals seven years of her life, from age eleven to eighteen. Forget the Night is an invitation for everyone to examine the joy and pain of growing up and to honor the decisions that each child must make in order to grow up. Jenny's story strikes deep at the heart of our nation's darkest secret, child abuse. Every conscientious adult will be emotionally impacted by the simple truth inside her family. A society that does not place the welfare of it's children first will collapse. The examination of this collapse can only by accomplished with the heart and Jenny's story is a story written from the heart. Survivors of childhood abuse will be deeply moved and find in Jenny's story the untouched places of their own healing journey. Partner's and family members, for the first time, can read exactly how and why "forgetting" is a life saving grace and why recovered memory is so vital for good health and wholeness. Jenny's heart rending conversations with herself follow her path of dissociation. Jenny's story is not isolated and neither is it relegated to the past. In our nation today millions of children are being abused and neglected each day. In facing this painful truth our society can grow and change.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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