Title: Memory Slips
First published: 1997
Description: Linda Katherine Cutting's memoir of family and music movingly portrays the trauma and recovery of a woman whose childhood was betrayed by those who were supposed to protect her. In exquisite prose she illuminates the inner life of a child for whom the gift of music was the only refuge, a refuge that protected her as long as it could. For when Linda began to remember what her father had done to her and her brothers - both eventual suicides - she stopped being able to remember Beethoven's notes.

Linda Cutting's writing bears witness to what had occurred. Her stunning "Hers" column, originally published in the New York Times Magazine in October 1993, was clipped and carried in wallets and pocketbooks and reprinted around the world. Now her memoir, Memory Slips, will not only reach out and give voice to victims of abuse but also move anyone who cares about the power of writing, the beauty of music, and the innocence of children.
Subjects: Biography, Adult child sexual abuse victims, Pianists, Sexual Child Abuse, Music therapy, Adult child abuse victims, Recovered memory, Mentally ill, biography, Adult children of dysfunctional families, Sexually abused children, Music, psychological aspects
Places: United States
People: Linda Katherine Cutting
LC classification: ML417.C88 A3 1997