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"Dramatic, graphic and wrenching...The reader is left to wonder--at the devastation of Carcaterra's youth, at his survival to adulthood, and at the grace that allowed him to craft this piercing memoir."
THE WASHINGTON POST
Lorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1950s and '60s in a confusing world of love and fear of his paradoxically violent and affectionate father. Then Lorenzo learned that his father had murdered his first wife. And he wondered how he could love his father again. Did he possess the same murderous fury; would he someday suddenly lash out at those he loved? As his father's physical abuse escalated, Lorenzo sought frantically for a safe place...a place where he could find hope and reconciliation and peace, where his father's terrible shadow no longer lingered. Now, decades later, Lorenzo has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. A SAFE PLACE is the brilliant result.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Lorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1950s and '60s in a confusing world of love and fear of his paradoxically violent and affectionate father. Then Lorenzo learned that his father had murdered his first wife. And he wondered how he could love his father again. Did he possess the same murderous fury; would he someday suddenly lash out at those he loved? As his father's physical abuse escalated, Lorenzo sought frantically for a safe place...a place where he could find hope and reconciliation and peace, where his father's terrible shadow no longer lingered. Now, decades later, Lorenzo has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. A SAFE PLACE is the brilliant result.
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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Growing up in Hell's Kitchen, New York, the author endured and survived a home life of violence and domestic abuse. The love/hate relationship between him and his father is related in unflinching detail. The spousal abuse suffered by his mother is sad, but her own part in submitting to and allowing it to continue, as it is told, makes it almost understandable. At age 14,the author learned that his father had murdered his first wife and had spent a number of years in prison. Obsessed with learning all of the facts surrounding the act,the author spent years searching for information about his father and this event. Along with the search, the love he had for his father slowly melted away as he saw a man he feared and vowed never to be like. Anyone who has has a rotten childhood should read this book; it attests to the ability of the spirit to survive and overcome.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I could hardly put this book down. I don't know how anyone could live a life like that or how a man could be such an awful person.
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Judi A. (Interesting story. It was good to read once - would not keep to read over and over.
Shanna V. (This is one of the best memoirs I have read. Very good book, I could not put it down.
I found this book to be graphic and heart wrenching. My heart goes out to the author of this book and his mother.
Very GooD! Incredible insight into Carcaterra's childhood. He's a great writer and this book is no different.
Cathy D. (I really enjoyed this book about a poor, young man who has a lot to deal with in his young life
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