Helpful Score: 1
"No one says that unresolved trauma can kill you. If anyone did, maybe people would take it more seriously. Serious as cancer." Mac McClelland is an American journalist and author that reports on domestic and international human rights stories. She has seen and heard a lot of nasty stuff through the course of her work, but it was a particularly violent sexual incident that she personally witnessed on the streets of Haiti in 2010 that ultimately led to her diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Mac adamantly refuses to describe that Haiti incident in detail for the reader, but instead focuses her memoir on the physical and mental after effects that she has now come to realize may be with her for a lifetime. Towards the end of the book, Mac spends some time contemplating secondary traumatic stress disorder (STSD) which can affect spouses, children, and caretakers. This was an important question for Mac because she also fell in love on that fateful trip to Haiti. My question: Is it possible to exhibit minor symptoms of STSD from just reading a raw, well-researched account of someone else's PTSD? I literally had to put this book down at times when my pounding headache and racing heart made it impossible to proceed. For me, that is evidence of the strength and impact of this book. I received this book from the BookBrowse First Impressions program in exchange for an honest review.
Sam Dolan is a young man thinking about his life after he makes his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, Booth Dolan, who is a movie actor, with a penchant for changing his nose in each of his films.
Allie was his mom, who has passed away due to a heart attack. Sam could never understand the love that she had for Booth, with everything that had gone wrong in their relationship.
There are many other characters in this book, and they are all very interesting.
I didn't really care for the plot in the book, but I have to say that Owen King is an awesome writer with very intelligent use of language.
Allie was his mom, who has passed away due to a heart attack. Sam could never understand the love that she had for Booth, with everything that had gone wrong in their relationship.
There are many other characters in this book, and they are all very interesting.
I didn't really care for the plot in the book, but I have to say that Owen King is an awesome writer with very intelligent use of language.
