{"product_id":"a-plea-to-our-mother-kathleen-rooney-9781038348661","title":"A Plea to Our Mother: A Poetic Journey of Childhood Incest to Resilience","description":"A Plea to Our Mother is a beautiful, complex, difficult collection of autobiographical poems that chronicles one woman's experience of childhood sexual abuse, and how the abuse suffered by other members of her family led to and complicated her own experiences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply personal and incredibly moving, the collection speaks to any reader who has experienced sexual assault or trauma, as well as those who want to better understand cycles of trauma and violence. At the end of the book, poems of resilience help uplift the reader after an emotional journey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreaking the silence is always difficult, but opening the conversation is the only way to bring understanding to the long-lasting effects of sexual violence and the common misunderstandings about people who suffer sexual violence as children. Poet Kathleen Rooney originally tackled this heart-wrenching content to break her own silence and with hope for validation from her family. When that didn't happen, she wrote the ending of the story of \"Now what?\" so that others in the same predicament would feel less alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Rooney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1038348668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781038348661\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Kathleen Rooney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852620378367,"sku":"9781038348661","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-plea-to-our-mother-kathleen-rooney-9781038348661","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}