Color Is the Suffering of Light: A Memoir

Author: Melissa Green
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ISBN: 0684822415
Publisher: Touchstone Books (July, 1996)
Sales Rank: 1,069,669
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5

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Rating: 4 out of 5
Well written, insightful and disturbing
A well-written, harrowing account of growing up amid dysfunction, and specifically, of being saved from a total death of the spirit by a rich protective inner life.

Parts of this account are indulgent and perhaps even a little precious in its notion of being "saved" by words and the imagination, but nevertheless this is an absorbing book as well as a quiet and thoroughgoing indictment of the neglectful abuse that exists in many, many households, and as described here, will strike an emotional chord in many readers, as it did for me.

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