"American Daughter-in the tradition of classics like The Glass Castle, LA Diaries and White Oleander-explores in unsparing details the complex interplay between intimate family ties, generational abuse and cataclysmic losses." - Gina Frangello, Author of \'Every Kind of Wanting\' and \'A Life in Men\' Editor of The Coachella Review For 50 years, Stephanie Thornton Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret.
Married at 19 to her high sc.
From living in a car on the beach with her five siblings to being isolated in the Dependent Unit of the State of California to a horribly abusive foster home, Stephanie never experienced a feeling of family during her childhood.
Stephanie calls Portland, Oregon, her home--a word imbued with much meaning, as she grew up without one.
About the Author Stephanie Thornton Plymale is the CEO of Heritage School of Interior Design and the founder of the Heritage Home Foundation, a non-profit serving families transitioning from homelessness.
Stephanie\'s story is unique but its messages are universal, offering insight into what it means to survive, to rise above, to heal, and to forgive.
American Daughter is at once the deeply moving Memoir of a troubled mother-daughter relationship and a meditation on trauma, resilience, transcendence, and redemption.
All this changed with a phone call that set a journey of discovery in motion, leading to a series of shocking revelations that forced Stephanie to revise the meaning of almost every aspect of her very compromised childhood.
Stephanie, in turn, knew very little about the past of her mother, from whom she remained estranged during most of her adult life.
No one outside her immediate family would ever have guessed that her childhood was fraught with every imaginable hardship: a mentally ill mother who was in and out of jails and psych wards throughout Stephanie\'s formative years, neglect, hunger, poverty, homelessness, truancy, foster homes, a harrowing lack of medical care, and ongoing sexual abuse. "American Daughter-in the tradition of classics like The Glass Castle, LA Diaries and White Oleander-explores in unsparing details the complex interplay between intimate family ties, generational abuse and cataclysmic losses." - Gina Frangello, Author of \'Every Kind of Wanting\' and \'A Life in Men\' Editor of The Coachella Review For 50 years, Stephanie Thornton Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret
