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Welcome to America

by Linda Bostrom Knausgaard, Martin Aitken

Germanic literatureDysfunctional familiesFictionPsychic traumaSelective mutismSibling abuseChild abuse

"Ellen's stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother's barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. We're a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. Welcome to America is a scintillating portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child in the throes of trauma, a family on the brink of implosion, and the love that threatens to tear them apart." -- Amazon.

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Book data: Open Library