Preludes: A Story of Child Sexual Abuse from a Child’s Perspective in a Middle-Class American Family
ASIN: B06X19LQ9T
Publisher: johnbrookswriting
Pages: 120
Illuminating the horrors of child sexual abuse from a child’s perspective, this original, novella-length version of Preludes chronicles 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. (A revised, novel-length version of Preludes is also available on the Kindle Store.)* * *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 examines 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 ...
