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To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross's years as a child - growing up in a "nice" Jewish family in middle income Long Island - felt as wholesomely American as any other. But nowadays, Jessica suffered years of physical and emotional abuse as a result of her dad, whose spirits would veer unexpectedly from adoring to violent. At the age of 28, still reeling from the injury but emotionally reliant on her dysfunctional family, Jessica made the anguished decision to slice ties with them completely. Years later, living in Maine with a adoring spouse and young child, having finally found pleasure, Jessica is persuaded the decision kept her life. In her powerful memoir similar to Jeannette Walls's best seller The Glass Castle, Jessica breaks through common social taboos and bravely recounts the unpleasant, self-defeating ways that she internalized her abusive years as a child, how she came up to the monumental decision to break free from her family, and how she endured the difficult street that followed. Ultimately, by extracting herself from the damaging habits and human relationships of the past, Jessica has managed to carve an inspiring way to happiness - one she has created on her own conditions. Her story, advised here in a careful, unflinching, and forthright way, completely reframes how we think about family and the past.
