The Assault of Laughter
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590921496 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 199 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Caught between her mother's home filled with love and the verbal and physical abuse she experiences from her father, Melissa struggles to hold on to what's most precious, coming finally to understand her mother's simple truth: Home is where the heart is.. When Melissa's mother, Maggie, comes out, she packs up her three kids and leaves the safety of the only life she's ever known. But a short time later, Melissa's father has Maggie declared unfit and Maggie loses custody of Melissa, Katie and Tim
Coming of Age with a Twist Laura L. Mays Hoopes Melissa Hart takes us along for the ride as she and her siblings cope with having her mother come out as a lesbian and the resultant divorce and hate war between the angry father and the resolute mother. We see the father's rejection of the son, who has mental difficulties but is full of fun, and father's inner violence under minimal control at times. Melissa grows up, dealing with these issues along with dating, teen peer pressure, racism, and coming to know herself. The most amazing thing about this book is the laugh-out-loud funny passages that are interspersed with heartbreaks. I couldn't put. Kidd Stubbs said The Assault of Laughter. Melissa Hart has written a book that should be required reading in every school in America. She has written from the heart, a true story, of what it is like growing up with prejudice from a father, friends and adults. All for being a child of a lesbian mother. Melissa has entertained us as well as made us look at the judgemental world we live in. She has told her story from a time when she, her brother and sister were young. Melissa writes with innocence and humor. As adults we can see what children have to bear from a disfunctional justice system.
Equally poignant is Hart's portrayal of the vulnerability of Mother, who suffers the loss of her children through the court system simply because she is a lesbian. Hart's narrative stresses the extreme powerlessness of the children in these kinds of battles They literally cannot choose to live in the safest place for them. In any kind of divorce, children involved often experience confusion, anger, grief, and frustration: through the character of Ronnie we witness all this and more. --Bobbie Combs, In Review, January/Febuary 2001