Chelsea Nicole
Description
When she was eleven, Emma's mother tried to kill her.
The plan was simple: Tim, her mother's boyfriend, would drown the kids in the river, shoot her
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mom in the head, then kill himself. When the plan failed, Emma's mother was taken away, and she was forced to move into her estranged father's house, where she would raise her two younger siblings, and endure abuse and neglect. Through sheer grit and determination, Emma would have to find a way to bloom through the torrent of drunken narcissism and degenerate strangers that dogged her childhood. But when her mother comes home, would that be possible?
Cry, Little Girl is the coming-of-age story of an innocent child being subjected to unimaginable cruelty, and yet never losing her determination to seek out a better life.
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