8: All True: Unbelievable

by Amy Fusselman and Mary Louise Kelly

The mania of early motherhood, the intimacy of marriage and the quest for healing are the raw materials from which writer Amy Fusselman has wrought her latest work - a daring exploration of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582433682
• ISBN13: 9781582433684
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Wow . . .

I picked up this book on a fluke from a friend's office, and wow . . . First off I have to say that this book offered me the most refreshing outlook on parenting I have ever read. The philisophical complexities that are examined do being a mother justice in a way that I have yet to see anywhere else. The issue of the "healing" was way out there for me, and I really loved that. Because of the openness and strength of the author to talk about, in what can only be described as a completely geniune tone, I enjoyed, actually delighted to follow her on what I thought to be a back alley path to health. It didn't lessen my esteem for her, in fact I found the active nature of dealing with her past endearing. Not only is the content refreshing but the form and structure is breezy at times, dense at others. Laughable and disturbing, this book is worth read.

Entertaining, with many great ideas & thoughts: a rambling exploration / pseudo-memoir

A really entertaining book with many great ideas & thoughts: a rambling exploration / pseudo-memoir including her reflections on childhood sexual abuse ("I have a pedophile"), explorations of healing (counseling, followed by something like Reiki), seeing famous people in New York (including a Beastie Boy), monster trucks, and learning to ride a motorcycle. It's very short -- probably novella length -- and I suspect if you start it you'll finish it.

A Haunting Book

This is a beautiful and haunting book -- half narrative and half philosophy. Amy Fusselman delves more and more deeply into the nature of cause-and-effect and into the nature of time itself as she explores events in her past and how they continue to resonate into her present. It is lyrcal, it is powerful, it is even funny. This is not a simple "I was a Victim" tale -- it is much more complex, and much more moving, than that.