SECRET DAUGHTER

All of Jean Ovide Bourdeau's previous works were among other things attempts at answering the savagery implied in the demotion of women as a group - a crucial element of domination everywhere in the course of history in all cultures and ethnic groups to this day. This work although very different from all the others has been faithful to that same mission purpose and objective. This novelized biography is a narrative demonstrating the singular callousness and cowardice within one dysfunctional family in particular and by extension within larger groups as well as an attempt to highlight the wounding and crippling of a child's sense of self-worth and self-expression. Helen the central character to this story is an integral and admittedly small part of the worldwide savagery of which the demotion of women has been a shameful constituent and continuing part of our human history. Here then are the muffled cries of a child in extreme pain many years ago now still suffering through severe panic attacks.