Emily: Out of My Mother's Darkness
Publisher: Star Publish
Published: April 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781935188032
Subjects: Book Club, Autobiographical Fiction, Tweens, Young Adult, Based on a true story, Healing, Therapeutic Writing
Genres: Tweens and Up
First sentence: Dear Diary,
Today is my birthday.
I am twelve years old.
My mother gave me a brown paper bag
with some new socks and underwear.
She gave me a small cake from the bakery.
She told me she did her duty
and not to expect anything else.
I don’t expect anything else.
Not any more.
Not after today.
It’s been six birthdays that I have waited
by the living room window,
parting the dark green drapes,
separating the off-white metal blinds.
Looking,
waiting,
hoping for my dad’s old green truck
to pull up in front of our house.
He’s not coming.
Description: Product Description
Join Emily as she opens a forbidden cedar chest, unlocks a Chinese box and discovers dark secrets. Share in her struggle to climb out of her mother's darkness. Emily/Out of My Mother's Darkness is a work of autobiographical fiction. Traumatic emotional events from Janie's life were woven into her book. Writing this novel helped her to reflect on her past and deepen her identity. Janie Lancaster plans to share her therapeutic-writing journey with her readers by giving lectures and teaching seminars.
Notes: Reading level: Young Adult

Autobiographical Fiction