Tag Archives: ACoA

Perfect Daughters by Robert Ackerman (Review)

By Anysia | July 3, 2008

Released June 2002 (Health Communications) * 350 pages * ISBN 13: 9781558749528
Perfect Daughters by Robert J. Ackerman is a non-fiction book that reports the results of a survey of more than a thousand adult daughters of alcoholics. There are two editions (2002 and 1998) and this review is of the first edition (I am tracking [...]

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Fierce by Barbara Robinette Moss (Review)

By Anysia | June 26, 2008

Released September 2004 (Scribner) * 256 pages * ISBN 13: 9780743229456

I’ve been procrastinating about writing this review, even though I loved the book, because some of the things that Barbara Robinette Moss touches on are still raw for me. In fact, I used a quote from Fierce in one of my own essays because Moss [...]

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Dear Dad by Louie Anderson (Review)

By Anysia | June 1, 2008

Released November 1989 (Viking) * 240 pages * ISBN 10: 0670829390

Louie Anderson is an American comedian who uses his dysfunctional childhood as fodder for his
stand up routine. Anderson grew up in a family of eleven children with an alcoholic father
This memoir (he has written several) is a series of letters that Anderson wrote to his [...]

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Forgiving Our Parents, Forgiving Our Selves (Review)

By Anysia | May 25, 2008

Released March 2004 (Gospel Light and Regal Books) * 370 pages * ISBN 10: 0830734236

This book is written by two family therapists. Stoop is founder and co-director of his Center for Family Therapy. Masteller is co-director of the Center and a family therapist there. Stoops personal background includes growing up in a dysfunctional family.
The focus [...]

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Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Review)

By Anysia | May 23, 2008

Released April 2008 (Knopf) * 352 pages * ISBN 13: 9780676979343

I have to admit that I’m not usually a fan of short stories, but they are starting to grow on me now that I’ve subscribed to Asimov’s, Analog, and NeoOpsis (which is what I should be catching up on instead of books). Where was I [...]