Uncle: The Dark Family Secret is a fast paced, firsthand account of the last holiday weekend Crickette's alcoholic paranoid schizophrenic uncle spent in her family home. Mattresses stuffed with kitchen knives, emergency driving lessons at age 12 and nightly barricades; coupled with elder abuse, neglect and denial all come to a head one fateful Memorial Day weekend. What began with a black eye at the age of nine and ended in assault and attempted homicide 15 years later. In Uncle: The Dark Family Secret, Crickette weaves a series of traumatic past events that eventually led up to an intense confrontation between her family, alcohol addiction and Schizophrenia. It is an honest, revealing and suspenseful quick read.
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