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After spending several years in New York and California working in group homes for abused and emotionally disturbed children, author M. T. Johnson spent two and a half years living and traveling in Southeast Asia, where he wrote this, his first book, Newspaper Diapers. Newspaper Diapers is a work of fiction that tackles child abuse and group homes, a fascinating collection of short pieces expertly woven together by a few brilliant interconnected threads. The book is a disturbing and graphic look at what we do to ourselves and each other, a blurring of the line between abuser and victim, and a glimpse into certain minds and realities we'd rather not see. The author's brutally honest writing style deals with sex and abuse with a candor and bluntness in the tradition of Henry Rollins and Hubert Selby Jr.M. T. Johnson said of the book, "Statistics about child abuse seem to bring about little, if any, change; it's the individual stories that inspire action, that get under our skin and keep us up at night. Newspaper Diapers is dedicated to the amazing kids I worked with, some of whom have already passed away at the hands of murder or suicide. This is an earnest attempt at moving forward with my own life, and an attempt at portraying certain realities, no matter how harsh or ugly they might be--for it's only by acknowledging reality that we can move forward." No library descriptions found. |
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The GR rating system is completely inappropriate for this book. It was a good book, but given the subject matter, I would feel completely strange if I were to rate it 5 stars. But then I would also feel guilty if I rated it 1 star. The one star rating, is appropriate, given that I didn't like the content. But it's not because the book was poorly written, just that its distressing that there are these types of horrible things going on, that are eventually turned into books like these.
This book is disturbing, and could be triggering for some people. It seems like a book of confessions to me, all written by the sufferers of this horrific abuse, but I have the feeling that these are just being related by the writer.
This book is intense, and just, sad. ( )