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Julien, Maude, 1957- author.
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Julien, Maude, 1957- -- Childhood and youth.
Adult child abuse victims -- France -- Biography.
Psychologically abused children -- France -- Biography.
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The only girl in the...
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The only girl in the world : a memoir / Maude Julien with Ursula Gauthier ; translated by Adriana Hunter.
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Julien, Maude, 1957- author.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Subjects
Julien, Maude, 1957- -- Childhood and youth.
Adult child abuse victims -- France -- Biography.
Psychologically abused children -- France -- Biography.
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9780316466622 (hardcover) :
031646662X (hardcover)
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273 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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First North American edition.
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The Only Girl in the World describes the author's harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents, who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness" and recounts how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
"Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on her parents' lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbade as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity to break free. By turns horrifying and magical, [this book] is a story that will grip you from the first page and leave you spellbound by its chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape."--Jacket.
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Aina Haina Public Library
Adult Biography
B Julien Ju
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362.76092 Julien Ju
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Manoa Public Library
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362.76092 Julien Ju
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362.76092 Julien Ju
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