Pam

Did Sonya receive a cut of the profits from this? Doubtful

Revisado: 03-26-22

A disturbing read, where the author mines his own daughters private traumas for his own “memoir.” A meandering and nasal attempt at assuaging the authors (justified) guilt dressed as a saintlike description of two self righteous people. While I have empathy for parents who adopted children at a time prior to RAD being a well known diagnosis, most of this takes places in near present time…and regardless, that in itself in no way makes these “parents” to Sonya any less culpable for the repetitive loop of their own one-note control method that unfolded in increasing volume with each chapter.

Final chapter repeats the same message mentioned elsewhere in this book, basically: “Guess we were just special strong people as opposed to all of those other weak siblings/Sonya/etc of ours who failed etc” was also such an obvious tell (ironic bc both parents pride themselves in their ability to “read” people).

Also I picked up on an odd Christian undertone? Esp in the insistence of control, lack of true accountability! You constantly abandoned a child who obviously was screaming I can’t fucking trust you not to abandon me and for minor in true terms in the context of how it was presented. Pay Sonya and apologize to her. GROSS

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