Falling Leaves, by Adeline Yen Mah
This is the biography of Adeline Yen Mah, a Chinese girl who was abused by her parents, how she overcame the abuse, and found closure. She started out life in 1930s China, and her mother died when she was very young. Her father remarried a very abusive and manipulative woman, and she was terrible to all her step children, but poured out most of her abuse on Adeline. Her father went right along with her. She was treated like vermin scurrying across the floor.
She talks about the harsh conditions she had to live under, being the unwanted child, how her siblings turned against her, largely from parental example.
She eventually went on to become a successful anesthesiologist in the United States, and bent over backwards to honor and support her father and stepmother, and other family members, and was treated horribly for it.
It breaks my heart that someone could treat their child the way she was treated. I just don't understand it. I am just glad that even though you might have a rough beginning, it doesn't have to stay that way. You may not ever get a Cinderella fairy godmother to step in and fix everything. You may have to make that better life yourself, but it can be done.
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