The bad daughter
By: by Julie Hilden.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Hilden, Julie; Mothers and daughters -- United States; Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships; Psychological child abuse -- United States; Adult child abuse victims -- United States -- Biography
Description: The Bad Daughter is Julie Hilden's story. As a child, Hilden uses books to escape her mother's bewildering rages and silent retreats. When her college acceptance letter comes, she flees - for good. And as Hilden builds the foundation for a new life - college, law school, and beyond - her mother's life is coming to an end.

Still, even as she attempts to escape the past, Hilden finds that it nevertheless comes back to her. With an unblinking eye, she describes the patterns of abandonment and deceit that come to mark her new life. And each of her relationships, she finds, is influenced, tainted in some way, by her betrayal of her mother.