β Scribed by Terry H. Watkins
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
DG is five the first time her mother goes away. Sheβll go away again and again before DG finally understands why: mental illness and a manipulating husband. DGβs family arenβt like other families. Her father moves them constantly. Moving, along with the stigma of mental illness, isolates the family. In public, they seem the perfect American dream. In private they grow increasingly unstable. Darling Girl unfolds in a series of vignettes spanning ten years and four continents. Traveling through the fifties and sixties and from apartheid South Africa to the capitals of Europe, the family live like so many dancing bears in a traveling circus with her father as the ringmaster. DGβs story is both personal and universal. Sheβs on a journey from innocence to experience; to the realization that her motherβs illness isnβt the familyβs only problem, itβs not even the main one.
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