The Taste of Anger: A Memoir

By: Vonglis Parnell, Diane

"I'll kill the first person who comes through this door." My father grips a baseball bat in his meaty hands.

It is 1962 and Diane is three years old when her violent father moves their family--her, her pregnant mother, and her six siblings--to a remote farm in Upstate New York. There, she grabs the reader by the hand and takes them to the broken-down barns, barren fields, and rows of bunk beds in her rat-infested attic bedroom as she...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647426847
• ISBN13: 9781647426842
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Very descriptive and well written memoir

The Taste of Anger: A Memoir grabs you on the first page and doesn’t let go. From the first sentence to the last, you are drawn in. It is well written, with vividly detailed imagery from the eyes, thoughts and perceptions of a child. The author makes it easy for the reader to “see” and “feel” what is happening to her and her siblings. Born into a time when abuse was rarely acknowledged, you truly feel her struggle to understand, to wonder why, to cope, to survive, to hope. At the end, I am left wanting to know what happened next to all of them. I would definitely look forward to a “Part 2” from Vonglis-Parnell.