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I'm Not Broken: Surviving the House of Demons

by Jessica Lynn Reale

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A childhood shaped by survival and its aftermath

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A childhood shaped by survival and its aftermath

Jessica Lynn Reale’s account centers on a child living under threat within her family, then entering foster care and preparing to testify against her parents. The narrative description also points beyond the immediate crisis to the years that follow: life without family, fear about the future, and the effort to imagine an adulthood not defined by a parent’s cruelty. Child abuse and death are explicit elements of the source, making this a difficult account of trauma, survival, and its continuing consequences.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in first-person accounts of family abuse and survival.
  • Readers seeking true-crime narratives involving child abuse, a foster-care experience, and testimony against parents.

Themes

Child abuseSurvivalFoster careTestimony and memoryLife after family trauma

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Book overview

Her body is thawing, and the smell of death is oozing from her. I want to be sick, but I say nothing. I watch like I was told. Good girls, listen. I want to rub my legs clean; I want a shower. Startled when my mom announced she was done. I finally see. Even though I was watching, I did not truly see. I say nothing. I sit and watch. Wishing for heaven too.
Survival is all I can think of, I must do as they say, or I will be next. I am trying to be strong but failing many times. Will I leave the summer alive? will I get to start 8th Grade? I was finally able to tell on my parents. Now I am traveling in the foster care system. I await trial. I am scared, but I will testify against them. For Alexia's memory. She deserves at least that much from me, as I failed her in many ways. Now I spend the next few years navigating life with no family.
Will I become a happy, successful adult, or will I end up a failure and worthless like my mother always said I would...

Trigger warning, child abuse, death
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