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What people are saying about Everyone Was Silent:
Diane Tarantini’s memoir of familial sexual abuse, Everyone Was Silent, crackles with tension from page one. The only daughter in a family of four siblings, she vividly describes how she dealt with her mother’s mental illness, her father’s emotional absence, and the cruel abuse of one brother. Yet, even as the events unfold, Tarantini’s writing is suffused with compassion, revealing how, with the help of her husband, her counselors, and her faith, she arrived at forgiveness for what she endured. Everyone Was Silent is a compelling read that offers an unflinching picture of an all too hidden issue. Kudos to her for her courage.
–Carter Taylor Seaton—award-winning author of four novels and four nonfiction works—holds the Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts in West Virginia.
Diane Tarantini’s Everyone Was Silent tells a story that is both anguished and fragile, of one family long enduring the twin miseries of mental illness and generational abuse. There are no movie-of-the-week endings here, no neat resolutions. What there is instead is the other story, one of enduring faith and dependence on God’s grace, and of the possibility of forgiveness in the midst of the toughest of circumstances.
—Brad Barkley, author of Alison’s Automotive Repair Manual, Dream Factory, and Scrambled Eggs at Midnight.
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