When Katie wakes
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Connie May Fowler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Fowler, Connie May -- Childhood and youth; Fowler, Connie May -- Relations with men; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Abused children -- Services for -- Florida; Women dog owners -- Florida -- Biography; Abused women -- Services for -- Florida; Abused children -- Florida -- Biography; Abused women -- Florida -- Biography; Labrador retriever
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Author Connie May Fowler tells her own story for the first time - the harrowing years of her childhood followed by the abusive relationship she endured as a young woman - and how the unconditional love of her dog helped her escape her physical and emotional bonds.".

"In this memoir, Fowler chronicles the emotional battery and physical abuse that marked her own passage to adulthood. She draws a searing portrait of growing up with her manipulative and needy mother, a woman unable to give the love and comfort every child has a right to expect.".

"And then, as a young woman, Fowler found herself involved with a man whose behavior disturbingly echoed her mother's. The man she lived with alternately displayed a desperate need for her or rejected her as if she were worse than useless. With heart-wrenching candor, Fowler records the abuse she suffered at his hands, from his constant attempts to undermine her self-confidence to his acts of brutal physical violence.".

"The unconditional love Fowler longed for finally came - in the shape of an adoring Labrador puppy named Kateland. With Katie at her side, she was able to withstand her mistreatment and the crushing weight of her childhood and, miraculously, managed to create a small refuge from the horrors that surrounded her. This is the story of her decision to end the years of mistreatment and even to open her life to a new, gentle man, whose love and understanding helped to transform her."--BOOK JACKET.