Unforgiving: The Memoir of an Asperger Teen - Paperback

by Margaret Jean Adam (Author)

1963: Margaret Jean's sixteenth summer. Her entire focus is on getting to a film audition. So different from the summer she was twelve when her one focus was avoiding a sexual predator; a "friend" of the family who moved freely in and out of her home, who often sat across the dinner table. She's older now, and all of that is behind her. Or is it? In Unforgiving, Margaret Adam weaves the memoir of an Asperger teen growing up in an era when the socially challenged condition is unheard of, sexual abuse is never mentioned, and a woman's best career choice is marriage. A revealing exploration of the isolation of a girl on the brink of womanhood, Unforgiving exposes Margaret Jean's fears, relives her blunders and celebrates her surprising achievements. How she responds to these events will change her life forever.

Author Biography

Margaret Jean Adam is a Canadian writer whose goal is to give voice to women and children who have suffered childhood abuse. While working with a publisher on her first book, she was told she a good "voice" for memoir writing. But the events that transported her from childhood through puberty and into adulthood were the kind that people never talk about. How could she write a memoir? And how could she make a compelling and powerful story about abuse? It took her six years to perfect Margaret Jean's story in Unforgiving. Ms. Adam also writes under her married name, Florczak, under which she has published among other things, a young adult short story, a book on Canadian tax matters, literary poetry, and "Brothers, Borders and Babylon" an anthology of Canadian writings about 9/11. She has a BA English honours from SFU. To learn more about the author visit her blog at margaretjeanadam.com or find her page on Facebook.