Pretty Boy Blues

<p><em>Pretty Boy Blues</em> is the story of Barbara a child who experiences abandonment neglect and abuse in a motherless home with a distant and disturbed father. She spends her childhood lonely and isolated becoming a juvenile delinquent at eleven. Desperately looking for love she drifts from one boy to the next becoming pregnant and quitting school at the age of seventeen. She struggles through multiple relationships and several divorces before eventually going to college to become a psychologist. Plagued with insecurity shame and a shattered sense of self-worth can she find gratification internally -- and not externally -- to fill the hole left in her from her childhood?</p><p><br></p><p>Sadly Barbara's story is not a unique one. Through her compelling memoir victims of abuse will understand that they are as worthy of love and true happiness as anyone else.</p>