She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me, (Paperback)

from SamSattler

For most, it is difficult to imagine the lives our parents lived before we were born. We (with a bit of luck) bonded with our parents when we were children, and no matter how old they live to be, to us they largely remain the people they were when we were growing up. We are forever their children...

from akblanchard

This was a different book than I thought it would be. The title She Left Me the Gun led me to be that this would be a dramatic true-crime memoir, but it isn't really. Rather, along with After Visiting Friends and The Mistress's Daughter, it is another entry in the growing sub-genre of memoirs in ...

from lisa.schureman

Not a psychological thriller nor did her mother leave her the gun. As someone who's been working on both my parents' families I've never interviewed any of my relations under the influence. If you want answers, as the author did, you either commit yourself to finding them or leave that door close...

from tina1969

This a non fiction , memoir of the authors journey to discover more about her mothers family after her death. Emma the author travels to South Africa to visit family members and discovers horrible truths about the sexual abuse the family members were subjected to by their father. I don't like rea...