num_pages: 231
description: An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by poverty sexual abuse neglect betrayal and further victimization by the broken Danish social services system that forced Lisbeth to live where and how it saw fit. Coming of age with a myriad of fears and emotional disorders Lisbeth had three things that would become driving forces in her she was extraordinarily bright extremely willful and exceptionally angry. From hell to liberation this is Lisbeths emotional and galvanizing memoir told in two that of a young girl who was unwanted challenged and defiant and that of a woman who channeled her rage into a positive force as a passionate advocate for childrens rights. Whatever darkness defines the past it can be used to change the future. Lisbeths heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting journey is proof.
language: English
title: Anger Is My Middle Name: A Memoir
publisher: Amazon Crossing