A review by readitall199
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival, by Kelly Sundberg
While reading this I wondered, where is the author’s rage at her husband? How can any one moment (amongst so many terrorizing ones) ever lead to so many pages of her love and devotion to him? I guess their romance did not begin violent, but he also didn’t tell her about his cheating or DUI. How can she trust him at all- let alone with her son?
And in contrast from the very beginning, she is an aware that she is and continues to be unhappy. Parts of this novel read like a love letter to him, after the fact. I suppose in this way, it is a true account of a so-called “battered woman.”
The denial is very very strong. In one scene they are out in a restaurant and he had 3 beers and they return home to her mother’s home where they are staying in the basement and she goes to the fridge to throw out Caleb’s beers into the yard- in this action shows she knows his drinking is problematic but she calls him a “functioning” alcoholic...
And in contrast from the very beginning, she is an aware that she is and continues to be unhappy. Parts of this novel read like a love letter to him, after the fact. I suppose in this way, it is a true account of a so-called “battered woman.”
The denial is very very strong. In one scene they are out in a restaurant and he had 3 beers and they return home to her mother’s home where they are staying in the basement and she goes to the fridge to throw out Caleb’s beers into the yard- in this action shows she knows his drinking is problematic but she calls him a “functioning” alcoholic...