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The Witch's Daughter
The Witch's Daughter: My Mother, Her Magic, and the Madness that Bound Us | Orenda Fink
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"From indie musician Orenda Fink, a memoir of a tumultuous childhood growing up with a mother who may have borderline personality disorder. Orenda Fink was raised by a darkly charismatic mother who insisted that they were both MAGIC. In The Witch's Daughter, Orenda chronicles her years spent navigating this ominous power, alongside her mother's substance abuse and hyper-controlling, often destructive, grip on the family, later suspected to be a subtype of borderline personality disorder classified as "The Witch." Fink's searing prose brings the reader through these tumultuous highs and lows of childhood, through her adulthood and early days as a musician, and into a healed version of herself who is able to walk through the world without being crushed under the baggage of her childhood"--
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This memoir is about relationships, pain, love, understanding, and acceptance. Orenda opens up about her journey and lets us see everything she experienced in an objective yet incredibly lyrical book. Many of us know the effects of mental illness, whether firsthand or through someone in our orbit, and the care and detail given to this struggle allow the reader to have a understanding of the toll it takes on the person and the people around them.

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