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  • Swallow the Ocean

  • A Memoir
  • By: Laura M. Flynn
  • Narrated by: Julie McKay
  • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura’s father of trying to win her over to the side of Satan, or buying only certain products that were evil-free, glimmers of her mother’s future paranoia grew brighter as Laura’s early years passed. Once her husband left the family and filed for divorce, Sally’s symptoms bloomed in earnest, and the three girls united in flights of fancy of the sort their mother had taught them in order to deflect danger.

Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is a searing, beautifully written memoir of a childhood under siege and three young girls determined to survive. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood.
©2008 Laura M. Flynn (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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A rare gem

Where does Swallow the Ocean rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

WIthout telling you how you should feel, or interpret her memories on paper, you get a very good insight into the way it is growing up around this illness.
Have read a number of such books, but have always found the adult looking back too navel gazy and retrospective. This is a recollection fo experiences, that is raw and honest.
Great book, especially if you yourself have experience something similar.

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