The incredible Leila Marie Lawler has a book giveaway going on her wonderful blog, Like Mother Like Daughter! Head on over, and share!
An excerpt:
I have always said that you simply can’t ask a child what he thinks about his parents’ divorce. There is too much at stake! For the child to admit that he has received a blow he may not recover from is too frightening. And in almost every case, the child feels he has to protect his parents who are obviously no longer in control of their own lives — if only for his own preservation, for, the child has no autonomy. Without his parents, he will be exposed to nameless danger.
No, you must wait until the child has grown. Then you may — may! — be able to find out what happened to his inner life when his world fell apart.
This is what Leila Miller has done — she has let the now-adult “child” speak.
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