The Black Spot: a memoir

THE BLACK SPOT tells with a dose of humor of resilience in the face of cruelty and triumph over dysfunctional parents who attempt to force Linda into submission with a bucket-sized frappe of mental emotional and physical abuse. Her mother suffers from serial promiscuity and social drunkenness always wanting to be the perfect wife and mother but alternates between beating dark secrets out of Linda and beating sense into her dramatically changing Linda?s educational trajectory. Her father is a Lothario who suffers from the handicaps of voluntary alcoholism and financial incompetence but loves animals at least one of his four children and ridiculously believes family ties should never be broken. Linda ?sees? bad things that will happen to those closest to her including death?but nothing warns her of her own misfortunes. You will find the deceit a child can evidence amazing but fitting given her circumstances. Lying to her parents' creditors and living through their struggles with each other and her struggles with them she gains coping skills useful at home and ultimately in the hard-wired testosterone of her professional life. Confronting each parent and prying out painful truths she comes to understand much of the ruin in all of their lives is the product of generations recycling unimaginable wrongs. Her transformation and triumph over sad beginnings and the end of relationships with each parent are completed in surprising and gratifying ways. FROM THE AUTHOR: I?m no celebrity never was an addict except for coke as in cola and don?t have Oprah on speed dial. Mine is not a pity story but a life that might make you laugh when you think you shouldn?t (but please do) and it might make you weep but not for long. Told in the vein of ?The Glass Castle? (Jeannette Walls) and ?Furiously Happy? (Jenny Lawson) my readers will include those who seek to understand and laugh at the darkness and know they are loved?isn?t that some part of nearly everyone?s life?

Paperback: 310 pages

Publisher: Bowker Identifier Services (September 6 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1733436006

ISBN-13: 978-1733436007

Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces