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How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Hendra, Jessica

Book ID: 107900406
Publisher: HarperCollins
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 378 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

How does a little girl find her way in a world where nothing is sacred?

In 2004, Tony Hendra's memoir Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul , spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The book detailed his life as a comedian who helped launch the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase, wrote for and edited The National Lampoon , and performed in such cult classics as This Is Spinal Tap , even as he overindulged in alcohol and drugs. But there was a glaring omission in his supposed tell-all confessional: the sexual abuse of his daughter Jessica.

After more than thirty years of silence, Jessica faced a harrowing choice. In this powerful book, she reveals how she came to the decision to publicly confront her father, sacrificing any hope of reconciling with him and setting into motion a New York Times investigation that shocked the literary world when it broke the story of abuse. But Jessica's account is...

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