Nikki is not like the mother in Hugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown in that book, the mother, while ill, is not abusive that mother never wanted to be a mother and that mother, perhaps, does what is best for her child by becoming an absent parent. Nikki has to be mentally ill the way she treats these children is chilling. The Good: This is not an easy read it is unsettling and upsetting, a look at physical, psychological and emotional abuse. But Matthew has forgotten the rules of survival including the rule of not hoping for escape. By a twist of fate, this man, Murdoch, starts dating Nikki. It's an uncertain way to live and Matthew begins to hope that something will change when he sees a man in a store stand up to a man shouting at a small child. Nikki, their mother, is hugs and kisses one day curses and slaps the next. When Matthew, Emmy, and their sister Callie lived with their mother and dreamed of escape. The Plot: Matthew tells his story to his younger sister, Emmy the story of their lives when Emmy was still small.
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