Saving Ellen, A Memoir of Hope and Recovery, by Maura Casey
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From Maura Casey, the author:
Why I wrote this book:
I wrote this book to answer, once and for all, the questions I had regarding my tumultuous childhood. Our lives revolved around the ongoing crisis of my sister Ellen’s kidney disease when treatment was crude and transplants barely existed; my mother’s determination to save her, o matter what; and my father’s alcoholic scenes along with his very public affair. Most of all, I wanted to know what my Mom knew, and when she knew it, and I had to write a book to figure that out.
A Snippet
The floorboards creaked. The noise cracked in the silence between my father’s wheezing snores. I froze on all fours, in full view of Dad’s mountainous for,, my panic rising. Other kids might learn how to knit, or hunt, or cook, whether by family tradition or necessity; at 11, I learned to steal from my father, and I was damn good at it.
Talk a Little, Talk a Lot
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Finding My Way
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