num_pages: 144
description: What happens to children of the mentally ill? While parents may seek treatment for their psychological imbalances, what happens to the children at home, behind closed doors? My Last Remains is a powerful and haunting true story of a child struggling to survive in a family of madness. Written from the child-observer perspective, it takes the reader behind the closed doors and inside the rooms where trappings of normalcy are discarded. This child's-eye view grips readers like a twisted Diary of Anne Frank. It holds them breathless waiting for a rescue that never comes. Instead of rescue they journey through desperate attempts for help and finally witness the gentle emergence of a young woman finding her own wings of freedom. My Last Remains lets readers experience the emotion and confusion of trying to make sense of the incomprehensible. It reveals, in a way no textbook could, the fearful reality of living with madness. By its sheer innocent brutality, this book makes the case for well-trained, competent and compassionate children's counselors and agencies. With 3.1 million abused and neglected children in the U.S. each year, there is obviously much more we can do.
title: My Last Remains
titlecomplete: My Last Remains
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Denlingers Pub Ltd