Book

Etched in Sand

Regina Calcaterra · 2013

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Context2013lived_experience

What this book knows

Five siblings survive a violently neglectful mother by clinging to each other, until telling the truth costs them the only family they have.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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She whips me… and whips me… then ties my hands together, binds my ankles, wraps my wrists around the closet rod.
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Cookie convinced them we brought the bruises on ourselves; then the cycle would start all over again in a different house, under different names.
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belonging

We're separated again, and it's because of me. We've sharpened our instincts and it's kept us together for six solid years.
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Rosie was suffering from Failure to Thrive—emotionally too upset about being separated from her family to absorb nutrition.
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shame

'You're only nine—that's too young to touch yourself down there. It's a dirty thing for a little girl to do.'
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'Stop lying for their sakes and tell me what has been happening here.' What if I did tell you? What would happen to the kids?
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Illuminates

15 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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