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No matter our wreckage : a memoir about grooming, betrayal, trauma and love / Gemma Carey.

No matter our wreckage : a memoir about grooming, betrayal, trauma and love / Gemma Carey.
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ISBN 9781760877675 (paperback)
Name Carey, Gemma author.
Title No matter our wreckage : a memoir about grooming, betrayal, trauma and love / Gemma Carey.
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
©2020
Description 264 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary When Gemma Carey was twelve years old, a man twice her age would sneak into her bedroom on a weekly basis and sexually assault her. When Gemma was seventeen, she took the perpetrator to court without anyone else knowing and had him placed on the child sex offenders register. When she was thirty-three, her mother died of cancer. For twenty years, her mother had known about this man. But why had she not acted to protect her daughter? Could the genesis of this betrayal be found in her own family history? No Matter Our Wreckage is the story of past and present colliding. It seeks to capture the complexity of forces which lead to abuse; to understand the intertwined narratives of mothers and daughters and how trauma becomes encoded in our DNA through generations. It explores grooming and the intricacies of consent, and how as a society we have not yet figured out how to deal with these types of crimes or the people who commit them. No Matter Our Wreckage is a powerful, poetic and unflinching memoir about what it means not to matter, and how an extraordinary woman refused to listen to the stories she was being told about herself - by her history, by her abuser, by her mother, by society. It is only by speaking out that Gemma Carey learns she can break free from her past and reclaim her life, her self and her future.
Subjects Carey, Gemma
Sexual abuse victims -- Biography
Sexually abused girls -- Biography
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
Mothers and daughters
Genre Autobiographies
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