A review by aoutrance
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

Realizing your own mother was incapable of truly seeing you—of loving you for who you are rather than as an extension of herself—is a bitter pill to swallow. It’s the death of a fundamental childhood hope, the one where if you just try hard enough, Mommy will love you unconditionally. 

Shari has an impressive sense of objectivity about her mother, her father and the abuse heaped upon her and her siblings. The real story was so much worse than the news - but I applaud her for refusing to talk about what her youngest siblings suffered at the hands of Jodi and Ruby prior to their arrest. I hope they are able to find the same peace that Shari was able to obtain.
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