Synopses & Reviews
When the mother of three little girls commits suicide, their father wants more than anything to keep his family together. He remarries in haste and tells his daughters his new wife is their mother. The youngest, Laura, believes her mother must have gone through a kind of magical transformation.Reversible Skirt is written from Laura's perspective as a child sifting through remnants of her mother's existence and struggling to fit into a community where her family's strict rules are not the norm. When Laura's father dies, her stepmother grows increasingly abusive, which propels Laura and her sisters into a lasting alliance. Their father's wish that they stay together comes true, although not in the way he'd imagined.
Synopsis
Something's wrong with Mommy.
She gets angry and shouts, and isn't like other mothers ...
Daddy says everything's okay, but I feel scared all the time ...
Laura's world turns upside down when her mother commits suicide, leaving three daughters under the age of five alone with a shattered father, who wants more than anything to keep his family together. He quickly remarries, bringing home a woman he hopes can take his late wife's place. But the children don't know what to make of this new harsh and bitter parent.
Upon his untimely death, the stepmother promises her husband she'll care for the girls as though they were her own. Instead she subjects them to constant abuse and seems determined to grind them down to nothing. Will this malevolent woman destroy the bonds of sisterly love, or will the little girls survive their never-ending nightmare?
Told in the voice of her younger self, Laura McHale Holland's searing memoir rings with honesty, resonates with truth and is a triumph of strength and forgiveness in the face of injustice. Get your copy and find out why readers call it "indelible" and "a story not to be missed."