"From age four to eighteen, Sue William Silverman was sexually abused with numbing regularity by her father, a high-ranking government official and successful banker. Rendered in often graphic detail, her story annihilates our complacency about who among us could commit such evil--and who could stop it, for this is also a story of complicity, of the blaming silence with which Silverman's mother meets her daughter's clear signals of distress. Exploring the inner contours of a family in crisis, Silverman shows how their situation persisted for so long--unreported, undetected, and unconfessed--and how the ordeal colored and controlled her life well into adulthood. From an anguished child who could find neither a strong enough voice nor the right words to an award-winning writer, 'Terror, Father' tells Silverman's unforgettable story of loss and recovery."
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