The Inheritance of Shame
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The Inheritance of Shame by Peter Gajdics
A page-turner, at once fascinating and deeply moving, The Inheritance of Shame is a memoir with shades of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and enough hope and joy to inspire anyone who has ever been shamed by their family or society. Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy (delivered in the form of primal therapy) that attempted to cure him of his homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a dominating, rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents' tormented past-his mother's incarceration and escape from a communist concentration camp in post-World War I Yugoslavia, and his father's upbringing as an orphan in war-torn Hungary-The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. Told over a period of decades, the story shows us the damaging repercussions of conversion therapy and reminds us that resilience, compassion, and the courage to speak the truth exist within us all. All over the United States and Canada, districts, cities and states are banning conversion, ex-gay and reparative therapies. This book offers the most complete and compelling reason for those bans to date. A groundbreaking memoir, The Inheritance of Shame offers insights into overcoming all kinds of shame, especially that which has trickled down from previous generations, and into the complicated but all-too-worthwhile process of forgiveness. This work also is a powerful example of healing through memoir.
Gajdics, Peter: - Peter Gajdics is a recipient of a writers grant from Canada Council for the Arts, a fellowship from The Summer Literary Seminars, and an alumni of Lambda Literary Foundation's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices. When not in Budapest, Hungary, his home away from home, Peter lives in Vancouver, Canada. This is his first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781941932087 |
| ISBN 10 | 1941932088 |
| Title | The Inheritance of Shame |
| Author | Peter Gajdics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Brown Paper Press |
| Year published | 2018-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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