![]() ![]() ![]() This book, like the one I just reviewed, Lucky, and like the one I might review next, When Rabbit Howls, was primarily an educational venture. I read Sickened and When Rabbit Howls back to back, and thus plummeted headlong into the realms of extreme child abuse. But other than that, I knew nothing about the story Julie Gregory was about to share with me. Makes Gone Girl look like Little House on the Prairie). I realized a few pages in that I had encountered something resembling MBP in Gillian Flynn’s novel Sharp Objects (very good, and very disturbing. I had no idea what to expect from this memoir, because I had no idea what “Munchausen by proxy” meant. Sickened took me into a world about which I knew nothing. The above elegantly summarizes the Gregory’s long and difficult recovery from her Munchausen by proxy (MBP) childhood. If someone shapes your mind into a distortion you have to find something that can give you the straight answer. ![]() And beliefs are erected by those who raise us. Sickened: The true story of a lost childhood/ The memoir of a Munchausen by proxy childhood by Julie Gregory I. ![]()
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