Secrets Hidden

By the Side of the Road

by Robin Taylor


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Softcover
$14.99
E-Book
$3.99
Softcover
$14.99

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 4/11/2012

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 190
ISBN : 9781462401000
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 190
ISBN : 9781462400997

About the Book

Secrets Hidden tells the true story of a woman rising from the ashes of her harrowing childhood. Living with her family in an old, dusty Mercury, author Robin Rae Schillereff traveled from state to state with her alcoholic parents and her older brother, Johnny. In this memoir, as she recounts the ups and downs of her journey as the daughter of a traveling salesman, long-forgotten memories emerge. Episodes unfurl with humor and pathos, guided by parents who were oft en too self-absorbed to understand how their frivolous actions affected their daughter. As she recalls her childhood in the 1950s, the dramatic response that she had to these life changes as an adult becomes clear. Robin also writes about her substance abuse and the very close calls she has with an overdose and her subsequent hospitalization. She opens up about all of the secrets she has held inside since her childhood— the feelings of abandonment by her father and her confusion about her early years. Moved by her will to survive, she was a girl who lived by the side of the road for much of her early childhood. Uplifting, funny, and heartbreaking, Secrets Hidden makes clear the resilience of one woman in the face of such an unusual childhood.


About the Author

Robin Taylor lived her first five years in a car; in 1977, she graduated with a MFA from UCLA. She has worked for thirty-five years in the entertainment industry and is an accomplished sculptor and artist. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and their two cats.