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  • Cool Hush: Memoirs

  • By: Rain Story
  • Narrated by: Rain Story
  • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Cool Hush: Memoirs

By: Rain Story
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Imagine, if you can, a shy, skinny young girl growing up in a small Southern Patriarchal town in the 1960s and '70s. All she wants is peace, love, normality, and freedom to dream and be who she wants to be. She also wants her mother and siblings to be safe and free from harm. When her alcoholic father - a member of the local KKK - beats the family into submission and demands silence about his ugly secret deeds, everyone is too frightened to cry out for help. The father expects nothing less than total submission from them, ensuring himself full control. He will get whatever he wants, whatever the cost. Will the decades of patriarchal abuse torment each family member to the point of no return? Who will survive, and who won’t?

These riveting memoirs deliver a real-life glimpse into a society that tolerates, enables, and encourages patriarchal domination and all that goes with it. The problems that domino from the oppression include rage, abuse, crime, and mental illness, among other critical issues. Yet, embedded within the monster machine are women who are born leaders, fighters, and survivors. These are the warriors the beast fears most. Rather than keeping their power to themselves, they help and encourage other women to rise up and fight. Their revolt clogs the cogwheels and gears, causing the tyrants and whip-crackers to panic and leap into vengeance mode. The bitter despots vow never to stop until every last woman warrior is destroyed. Their existence and way of life depend upon it. But will the survivors go away? Will their voices fall dead at the feet of the cool hush?

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A journey of the soul

This book is an engaging story of survival. From a childhood of abuse and trauma with the corresponding damage to the psyche. The author takes the reader on what sometimes feels like a rollercoaster ride of tragedy, humor, and bad decisions to an eventual haven of self acceptance, coping skills, and survival.
The author very skillfully weaves this story in a way that makes you feel you are riding along as a passenger in her life. You cannot help but root for her and and feel joy for her in the end.

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