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Survivor
Survivor
Author: Christina Crawford
Beginning where Mommie Dearest ended, Survivor recounts Christina Crawford's long journey from anger and chaos to the peace of an inner awakening. While taking readers through her physical rehabilitation, the result of a massive stroke in 1981, the burdens start to lift as she studies shamanism and metaphysics.
ISBN-13: 9781556111181
ISBN-10: 1556111185
Publication Date: 10/7/1988
Pages: 268
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3.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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In this sequel to the ground-breaking and shocking Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford dissects her first book and the public outcry that it caused; the subsequent movie adaptation of that book; her debilitating stroke and struggle for recovery and the breakup of her marriage. Mommie Dearest was the first celebrity "tell-all" book, and garnered quite a lot of attention - both positive and negative - for Christina Crawford.

I have to say that while I truly admire Christina's fervor to bring to light the until that time unspoken horror of child abuse, I found her sequel to be somewhat self-obsessed and too wrapped up in placing blame for all her present problems at her mother's feet. I understand that many adult child abuse survivors must overcome many obstacles to become productive citizens of the world, but surely, just because a person has been horribly abused as a child doesn't mean that everything that they have ever experienced or will potentially experience during their lifetimes can always be traced back to how they were raised?

Joan Crawford quite possibly shouldn't have been a mother, both because of her personal problems or her psychological state, but is she entirely to blame for the breakup of her daughter's marriage? I just found it so sad that Joan Crawford's surviving children have a non-existent relationship with each other. I give this book a B!


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