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    How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir

    By Jessica Hendra

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    From the daughter of the bestselling author of Father Joe: the poignant and ultimately hopeful memoir of a young girl’s struggle to live a normal childhood in the chaotic seventies, and to overcome sexual abuse by her famous father

    Earlier this year, Tony Hendra’s memoir, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The book detailed his life as a comedian who launched the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase and helped create such cult classics as This Is Spinal Tap, while he struggled with inner demons including alcohol and drug abuse. But there was a glaring omission in his supposed tell-all confessional: his sexual abuse of his daughter, Jessica Hendra, when she was a young girl.

    After more than thirty years of silence, Hendra has decided to reveal the truth. In this poignant memoir, she reveals the full story behind the New York Times article that rocked the world and detailed her father’s crimes. But Jessica’s story is no footnote to her father’s story. No One Was Listening is also the inspiring story of her own journey, and how she was finally able to find healing within, after years of struggling with anorexia, bulimia, and low self-esteem. Set against the backdrop of the chaotic seventies, Hendra’s memoir follows Jessica and her sister Kathy as they strove to make a normal life for themselves amidst the madness, sex, and drug abuse that her parents and their friends—many of the household names in the world of show business—participated in. No One Was Listening reveals the hope and heartache of a young girl who was faced with a loss of innocence at an early age, who faced a slow and painful recovery, and who finally found contentment and peace within.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061974816
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    Jessica Hendra

    Jessica Hendra lives with her husband and two daughters in Los Angeles, California.

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      After the publishing (and commercial success) of Tony Hendra’s largely autobiographical work, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, his daughter is devastated by the impression he has given of releasing a tell-all confessional, expunging himself from the sins of indifference and often verbal cruelty he exhibited as a father (while occasionally relating the wisdom of his spiritual director). Jessica Hendra is profoundly wounded to find that her father has accepted all the praise for his work without acknowledging what she hopes is the thing he is most sorry for- his molestation of her when she was a child. This book tells the story of her father as she remembers him, which is a very different from they way he portrays himself in Father Joe, despite it’s, “I’ve seen the worst in myself and now so have youâ€? nature. While her abuse was the reason for publishing her book, it is also about the affect her childhood had on her throughout her life and the way her parents’ (but especially her father’s) sex, drugs, and satire lifestyle robbed her of her innocence and childhood in more ways than one.Quote: “I knew since I was seven that you’d be mad if I told.â€?I read Father Joe (and felt eh about it), posted a review, and someone pointed me in the direction of this book, for which I am very grateful. In addition to providing the other side of the tale related in Father Joe, it was a difficult-to-read difficult-to-put-down work, in which the author not only confronts the family secret that, for the sake of harmony and self-preservation, she kept to herself for so long, but also the inevitable comments that she is choosing to come forward at this moment solely for revenge or money or whatever else because she waited until her father’s book was published. Although I am not sure how well it would stand alone, since one who had not read Father Joe might not understand the depth of her reaction to the work, having read the first I could understand her need for a response.