✨Blog Book Tour✨ Nowhere Girl by Cheryl Diamond This book was WILD! Born into a family, a decade into being, international outlaws; the book starts off at a rapid pace. We are quite literally in the middle of a horrific car scene, where a family of 5 are careening down the Himalayan mountains without any breaks. This is the story of a young girl, who’s earliest memories are around 4 or 5, that is documenting her life in chronological age, as she recounts her life on the run as outlaws with her parents. The story is truly mesmerizing and engaging, full of action and drama, and suspense. I was fully drawn in by her story, that I couldn’t put the book down. Learning about her family, living life on pure cash, fleeing country to country, and pushing life to the very edge in order to evade authorities. There is a lot to unpack here in this story, however. Her father, a megalomaniac, who physically and emotionally abuses them, pushes them all to be the best of themselves at all things, but deprives them of emotional support, is forcefully urging his family to run from authorities for nearly 3 decades. Topics to discuss: - Megalomania - Emotional abuse - Physical abuse - Sexual abuse - Mental illness - Generational trauma - Helicopter/Detached parenting - Lack of stability However, this exciting lifestyle, though it may seem, is very sad. Diamond and her siblings never see stability in their childhood. They are prohibited from being normal in any sense of the word, and they are constantly on edge from having to lie and fake it through everything in their lives. The cost of having to leave people, things, memories, lives, etc. constantly weighs on them all, until it hits a breaking point. Where do you go when you can’t go anywhere? This is the life of Cheryl Diamond. Thank you to Algonquin Books and Cheryl Diamond for this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. Full review, link in bio. #nowheregirl #algonquinbooks #cheryldiamond @algonquinbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZbhYnr1A0/?utm_medium=tumblr
