Gathering the Fragments of Myself: A Later-in-Life Coming-of-Age Story of One Woman's Road to Wholeness

The third of eleven children Jan Banaszek spends her childhood in the role of fierce protector--striving to shield her younger siblings from the dysfunctional home life created by their father a volatile man who can snap at any moment. With a loving but subservient mother who looks the other way at her husbands inappropriate behavior with their daughters Jan unwittingly seeks approval from men for all the wrong reasons. Shy reserved and deeply influenced by her strict Catholic upbringing she con...See More