martha_p 's review for:

Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
4.0

This story is one of the most anxiety-inducing ones I’ve ever picked up. I was stunned by the physical and mental abuse that Fran Benedetto had endured for almost two decades. The emotional breakdown that it caused her, the acute loneliness she experienced and the stripping of her dignity and self respect had me reaching for a tissue. This story gives insight into the life of a battered woman and all the emotional and psychological disturbances it gives rise to. Not for the faint of heart.