{"product_id":"the-taste-of-anger-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Taste of Anger: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiane Vonglis Parnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I'll kill the first person who comes through this door.\" My father grips a baseball bat in his meaty hands.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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 questions all that feels wrong about her new world. She watches her ever-pregnant mother grow emotionally colder with each new baby and wonders, \u003ci\u003eWhere is she when he swings his fists, his steel-toed boot, or a crowbar?\u003c\/i\u003e Forced to perform adult manual labor in between the erratic beatings she and her siblings pound on one another to release their own aggressions, she asks herself, \u003ci\u003eIs this what we've become? What I've become?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNarrated in the ever-hopeful voice of a child, \u003ci\u003eThe Taste of Anger\u003c\/i\u003e explores in raw, unflinching detail how years of isolation, oppression, and the threat of retaliation create an environment in which family secrets are guarded at all costs. Tension is palpable with the turning of each page, ensuring that the reader won't let go of Diane's hand until she gets an answer to her most urgent question of all: \u003ci\u003eWho will rescue us?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763576045856,"sku":"9781647426842","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/809770f28ed99dba20e4e8b0c01b6142.webp?v=1780236351","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-taste-of-anger-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}