What Happened to Suzy
Publisher: Carlton Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, NY
Format: Paperback; Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
Description: Incredible "Award Winning" autobiography of novelist, Carol Denise Simms-Mitchell. Ms. Mitchell was severely abused by her mother, brother and father in rural Los Angeles, during the Civil Rights Movement, and the Watts Riot from 1955-1965. 

This much lauded story depicts the strength of Suzy's character, a dark-skinned child, unwanted, and unloved, who is victimized in and out of the home. Long before CPS, abuse ran wild in some of the poorest neighborhoods in our country. Many of those stories have never been told. Mitchell holds back nothing in this chilling tale of abuse and survival.