{"product_id":"goodbye-sweet-girl-a-story-of-domestic-violence-and-survival-9780062497673","title":"Goodbye  Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is a hell of a thing to write about brutality and suffering with strength  grace  generosity and beauty. Thats precisely what Kelly Sundberg has done in her gripping memoir about marriage and domestic violence. Sundbergs honesty is astonishing  how she laid so much of herself bare  how she did not demonize a man who deserves to be demonized. Instead  she offers a portrait of a broken man and a broken marriage and an abiding love  what it took to set herself free from it all. In shimmering  open hearted prose  she shows that it took everything.\"--Roxane Gay  author of Hunger and Bad Feminist \"In her stunning memoir  Kelly Sundberg examines the heart-breaking bonds of love  detailing her near decade-long marriages slide into horrific abuse. Sundberg shares her own confusions  fears and empathy for her violent husband  even as she comes to realize he will never change. This is an immensely courageous story that will break your heart  leave you in tears  and  finally  offer hope and redemption. Brava  Kelly Sundberg.\"Rene Denfeld  author of The Child Finder \"A fierce  frightening  soulful reckoningGoodbye  Sweet Girl is an expertly rendered memoir that investigates why we stay in relationships that hurt us  and how we survive when we leave them. Kelly Sundberg is a force. She has written the rare book that has the power to change lives.\"Christa Parravani  author of Her: A Memoir In this brave and beautiful memoir  written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Glass Castle and The Liars Club  a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuseexamining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship  why she endured years of physical and emotional pain  and how she eventually broke free. \"You made me hit you in the face \" he said mournfully. \"Now everyone is going to know.\" \"I know \" I said. \"Im sorry.\" Kelly Sundbergs 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 womans 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648296116277,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062497677","price":21.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062497673.jpg?v=1781715529","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/goodbye-sweet-girl-a-story-of-domestic-violence-and-survival-9780062497673","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}