The Girl with the Caterpillar Eyebrows
Subtitle: Survival. Resilience. Triumph
By: by Lisa Ditchkoff
Publisher: Lisa Ditchkoff
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780615848730
Subjects: Survival; Resilience (Personality trait); Habiletés de survie; Résilience (Trait de personnalité)
Description: Lisa Ditchkoff explains her life in hiding for 27 years, enduring physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, as well as her ties to the Irish Boston Mafia in "Southie." She grew up in fear of her father, an alleged "mobster" and legendary Boston Garden record-holding fastest knockout boxer. Memories of Lisa's father were shadowy ones, but she remembered.
Table of contents: title: The Escape; Judy Zerveskes Connors, 1960s and early 1970s; No Judy, No Kids, 1978; From Southie to the South, 1978; The Accident, 1980; A Boy's Life in Southie, 1950s and 1960s; The Years of Tommy the Boxer, Late 1960s-1980s; A New Kind of Danger, 1970s and Early 1980s; Wanting and Not Getting, 1980s; Sleepovers, 1980s and 1990s; Looking for Love, 1980s; A New Start in Southside, 1980s; "We'll Work Something Out," 1989; Mazzio's Pizza and Oprah; Welcome, Zackery, Easter Sunday, April 15, 1990.; title: My First Real Love, ZackeryVotes of Confidence from Surprising Places; A Father Finds a ""Son," Late 1980s; Learning About Tommy, 1990-1991; A Three-Year Detour, 1990-1993; A Detour of My Own, 1991-1994; Snips, Snails, and Puppy Dog's Tails, May 30, 1994; Back and Forth and Back and Forth, 1995-1998; Scotty and the Venita Years, 1996-2002; A Not-So-Still Life in Stillwater, 1994-1997; An End and a Beginning, 1996-1998; "I Take You, Steve," 1998; Mommy the College Graduate, 1998-2000; Bye, Stillwater and Hello, Auburn; Chasing Another Dream; Scotty, My Cheerleader, 2003.; title: Saying Goodbye to a Brother with a Heart of Gold"Maybe You Should Think about Moving Back There," 2004; The Return to Southie, 2004; "You're So Beautiful," 2004; "I Forgive You," 2004; My Southie Father; "I Think You Should Write It"; Passing the Hug; Life's Miracles; Another Dream; The Year of the Depression?; Slowing the Bleed; My Life Today; Tommy and Judy.