Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives
✍ Scribed by Allen, Tina Alexis
- Book ID
- 109714624
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 482 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062565709
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✦ Synopsis
"A writer candidly confronts her personal truth in her quest for transformation, transcendence, and redemption." -Kirkus Review
Actress and playwright Tina Alexis Allen's audacious memoir unravels her privileged suburban Catholic upbringing that was shaped by her formidable father --a man whose strict religious devotion and dedication to his large family hid his true nature and a life defined by deep secrets and dangerous lies.
The youngest of thirteen children in a devout Catholic family, Tina Alexis Allen grew up in 1980s suburban Maryland in a house ruled by her stern father, Sir John, an imposing, British-born authoritarian who had been knighted by the Pope. Sir John supported his large family running a successful travel agency that specialized in religious tours to the Holy Land and the Vatican for pious Catholics.
But his daughter, Tina, was no sweet and innocent Catholic girl. A smart-mouthed high school...