Goodbye, sweet girl : a story of domestic violence and survival
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New York, New York : Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019].
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First Harper Perennial Edition.
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x, 258 pages ; 21 cm
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Published
New York, New York : Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019].
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First Harper Perennial Edition.
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Kelly Sundberg's husband, Caleb, was a funny, warm, supportive man and a wonderful father to their little boy Reed. He was also vengeful and violent. But Sundberg did not know that when she fell in love, and for years told herself he would get better. It took a decade for her to ultimately accept that the partnership she desired could not work with such a broken man. In her remarkable book, she offers an intimate record of the joys and terrors that accompanied her long, difficult awakening, and presents a haunting, heartbreaking glimpse into why women remain too long in dangerous relationships. To understand herself and her violent marriage, Sundberg looks to her childhood in Salmon, a small, isolated mountain community known as the most redneck town in Idaho. Like her marriage, Salmon is a place of deep contradictions, where Mormon ranchers and hippie back-to-landers live side-by-side; a place of magical beauty riven by secret brutality; a place that takes pride in its individualism and rugged self-sufficiency, yet is beholden to church and communal standards at all costs. Mesmerizing and poetic, Goodbye, Sweet Girl is a harrowing, cautionary, and ultimately redemptive tale that brilliantly illuminates one woman's transformation as she gradually rejects the painful reality of her violent life at the hands of the man who is supposed to cherish her, begins to accept responsibility for herself, and learns to believe that she deserves better.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Sundberg, K. (2019). Goodbye, sweet girl: a story of domestic violence and survival (First Harper Perennial Edition.). Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sundberg, Kelly, 1977-. 2019. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival. Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sundberg, Kelly, 1977-. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Sundberg, Kelly. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival First Harper Perennial Edition., Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.

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