Every House Had a Secret

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The gripping psychological family thriller that is based on a true story follows a childhood shaped by deep emotional trauma survival and eventual strength. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Every House Had a Secret </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>chronicles the life of young siblings growing up in 1960s-70s America amid Family secrets generational pain and cycles of emotional abuse.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Born into a home already fractured by manipulation and denial the narrator faces relentless emotional abuse from her father and watches her mother endure violence and control.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This book reveals the raw truth of a past-where a sister is kidnapped at seven and attacked again as a teen a brother who ran away twice to escape relentless physical abuse and a life unsettled by constant relocations including a time of homelessness.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Children are awakened at night for cherry counts spanked with switches on birthdays and haunted by both physical threats and psychological torment. A father with severe mental illness who keeps coming back-even after being institutionalized-sits at the center of their suffering.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Despite it all this is a story of resilience. The narrator finds meaning in moments of sweetness-guardian angel sightings neighborhood friendships and memories of biscuits and gravy. She survives the horrors of the houses that had secrets. Her brother remains her closest ally. A butterfly tattoo becomes her symbol of freedom.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Through grief abandonment and loss-including the passing of her oldest sister and mother-the survivors go on to create better lives for themselves.</span></p>