"Incisive, courageous writing in a vivid family account that proves both sensitive and challenging. But most of all, it's a story of resilience-when the role of the caretaker and the cared for are prematurely reversed, there is no choice but to become a responsible adult long before growing up.
Menara's compassionate chronicle, Silence of A Child Caring for Her Bedridden Mother, is for those seeking insight into dysfunctional family relationships and weathering the challenges of caring for a loved one with a debilitating illness. Only after her mother's death would she discover damaging secrets and hidden identities that would forever change her world. Though her mother was abusive, Wendy refused to stop loving her. With no other options, the optimistic child and her siblings fed, groomed, and cared for their mother's deteriorating body. By the time she entered first grade in the early 1970s, her parents had divorced, her father was rarely in her life, and her volatile, pain-wracked mother was bedridden with multiple sclerosis.
She shares episodes of her life caring for her mother and the heartbreak, at age thirteen, of losing her. Menara reveals the rare perspective of a child living in the shadow of death, while tending to a chronically ill, mentally abusive, bedridden parent.
Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews.
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