Believe Like A Child
by Paige Dearth
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Pub Date Jun 22 2011 | Archive Date Jul 10 2015
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Description
Alessa is just seven years old when her uncle rapes her for the first time. As the years pass, his sexual appetite becomes more voracious and his perversion more twisted, until the abuse has become almost a daily ritual, with the unspoken involvement of the girl’s mother.
At the age of sixteen, after the death of her only friend, Alessa finds herself at the mercy of her real-life monster, with no relief in sight. She flees her home to escape this hell, only to find herself descending into a more dangerous one. Alone and helpless in the streets of North Philadelphia, she encounters more human predators who want to take over her life and devour her. About to hit rock bottom, Alessa manages to break away from her new tormentors and finds refuge in a shelter for homeless and abused women.
Wherever she goes, however, trouble keeps seeking her out, until she meets three people who change the course of her life forever. Though Alessa’s bittersweet journey is perpetually fraught with challenges, she does, nevertheless, manage to find fleeting moments of joy along the way. But as she begins to settle down, a ghost from the past comes to haunt her again, threatening to destroy the very foundation of her small world and plunging her back into an abyss of despair, until she makes her final bid for escape.
Advance Praise
Ije Kanu
BellaOnline's Literary Fiction Editor
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art41166.asp
“It moves you to the core, opens your eyes to things you never would have thought, situations you never would have imagined. It offers a fresh perspective to what it is like to live on the streets, with nowhere to go, not knowing where your next meal is going to come from, or where you'll lay your head for the night. It's painful. It's appalling. It's breath-taking literature.”
Kathleen Higgins Anderson
Jersey Girl Book Reviews
http://jerseygirlbookreviews.blogspot.com/2012/05/believe-like-child-by-paige-dearth.html
“Believe Like A Child is a gut wrenching and disturbing story that will pull at your heartstrings and leave your emotions completely spent. This hauntingly powerful story is told in a straight forward, graphic and realistic way that engages the readers full spectrum of emotions. With powerful and complex characters that leap off the pages, the reader is easily drawn into their world, some you’ll love and others you’ll despise, but nonetheless their intertwining lives make the story that much more compelling. The descriptions of abuse and life on the street is graphically explicit, gritty and realistic.”
http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2013/05/review-believe-like-child-by-paige.html
“This is one of the most emotional heart wrenching dark family horror stories I have ever read but with an alluring character, Alessa, she made it worthwhile. “
“This story will pull you in from the first paragraph and won't let go until the end.”
“Alessa is a joy to know throughout her journey, you cry with her, for her, praise her, celebrate with her, fear for her.”
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| ISBN | 9781461105671 |
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General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
