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The Bad Daughter
Betrayal and Confession
By Julie Hilden
Hardback
ISBN: 9781565121850 (1565121856)
Published by Algonquin Books
$18.95(US)
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about The Bad Daughter
When Julie Hilden's mother became ill her daughter didn't do what was expected of her. Julie chose to abandon her mother and make her own life. As a child, she used books to escape her mother's silent retreats and bewildering rages. When Harvard's acceptance letter came, she fled. She blamed no one for her sad childhood, and she never asked for forgiveness. THE BAD DAUGHTER is Hilden's haunting, intelligent story of how she began discarding all traces of her former life. In the course of the story, however, Hilden discovers that she can never fully escape her past. Each new relationship she forms is influenced by her betrayal of her mother. And in a final, chilling irony, Hilden learns there is a good chance she carries the very same gene for early-onset Alzheimer's that brought on her mother's terrifying fate. "It's hard to decide what is more remarkable about Julie Hilden's THE BAD DAUGHTER: her unusual courage and frankness or her remarkable gifts as a writer. This is an absorbing book and an impressive debut."--Alison Lurie.
about Julie Hilden
Julie Hilden was born in Teaneck, New Jersey in 1968. She graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1989 with degrees in Philosophy and English. She received her JD from Yale Law School in 1992. In 1995, she earned an MFA from Cornell University, where she studied with Alison Lurie. She now lives in Washington, D.C., where she works as a litigator practicing criminal defense and First Amendment law.
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