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The Crucible of Silence by Suzanne Milliesdottir takes the mask off the deeply disguised familial child sexual abuser. The face that is revealed is one of a person who lives a normal, law-abiding life and a secret one much like the author's college professor ex-husband. Milliesdottir describes both her practical and emotional journeys that followed her daughter's disclosure that she had been sexually abused by her father. Most people underestimate if not entirely miss that the mother is a secondary crime victim. The author's compelling story, told from a mother's unique perspective, serves as a prism through which the hidden human story buried in a single case statistic may be viewed and understood. This is the fuller story that emerges from the silence to speak to a variety of readers: The mother of the child-victim is either vilified or forgotten during the trauma's bewildering aftermath. Other mother-survivors of this crime will discover both a connection to their own grief and ange
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