Don't You Ever

Don't You Ever My Mother and Her Secret Son

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Hardback (03 Jul 2018)

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Publisher's Synopsis

While applying for a passport as an adult, Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery: she had a secret half brother. Her mother told Mary Carter that the abandoned boy was a "youthful mistake" from an encounter with a married man. Nine years later, Mary Carter tracked Ronnie down at the barbershop where he worked and found a near-broken man -- someone kind and happy to meet her, but someone deeply and irreversibly damaged by a life of neglect and abuse at the hands of an uncaring system. He was also disfigured due to a rare condition that would eventually kill him. Digging deep into her family's lives for understanding, Mary Carter unfolds a sweeping narrative of religious intolerance, poverty, fear, ambition, class, and social expectations. A riveting memoir about a family haunted by a shameful secret, Don't You Ever is a powerful story of a woman's search for her long-hidden sibling and of the factors that profoundly impact our ind

Book information

ISBN: 9780062400734
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Imprint: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 306.8753092
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: viii, 247
Weight: 408g
Height: 234mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 28mm