ASIN: B00IVY7BI6
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 83
Illuminating the horrors of child sexual abuse from a child's perspective, "Preludes" is a novella chronicling the experiences of a nine-year-old boy as he struggles to survive sexual abuse by his father in a middle class American family in the 1960s. "Preludes" is based in significant part on the experiences of its author, a child sexual abuse survivor. * * *When a nine-year-old boy in a "respectable," middle class family is raped, then repeatedly molested by his father, how does the boy experience the abuse and how does he manage to survive?"Preludes" explores answers to these questions. The boy wakes in the middle of the night to find his father sitting on the edge of his bed, gently shaking him from his sleep. Though confused by his father's unexpected presence, for a few brief moments he suspects nothing. His father then accuses him of having misbehaved without saying how, and ...
