The twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet : a memoir
(Book)

"Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughters struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness, addiction, and violence, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rage and trudging through a fog of confusion with her mother, a suicidal incest survivor hooked on prescription drugs. Family memories were buried--even as they were formed--and truth was obscured by lies and fantasies" --,Provided by publisher.