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“I had a minor revelation while reading this book for the second time: personal memoirs resist critical inquiry, and that must be why there are so many of them out there. Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed is no exception: I found myself confounded into silence by the magnitude of the author’s pain and by the confessional frankness in her tone as she writes about the traumas inflicted upon her and her sisters by their sexually predatory and abusive father. Josie Méndez-Negrete grimly and inexorably lays bare truth after sickening truth about the terrors of her girlhood. The family, Mexican-American migrant farm workers, endured the abuse in invisibility and silence until the father was finally caught and jailed. As I read, questions rose to the surface: how am I supposed to review a story so personal, so awash in grief and rage that I can’t read more than a chapter without feeling overwhelmed by horror? Am I qualified to review this book, being neither a survivor of incest nor a trained mental health professional?”
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