I picked up this book, interested in how Dunker coped with family dysfunction in a Christian family with a famous father. It is a story laced with yearning.
After finishing the book, I had a glimpse of the inner fault-lines of this family; but reading it did not help me in my own journey to wholeness. Marilee is respectful in her honest appraisal of her family, but I still wonder why she needed to write a book about it.
I think many of us could write memoirs of pain and disappointment from our childhood. That pain seems magnified when the parent is glorified by all those around you.
After finishing the book, I had a glimpse of the inner fault-lines of this family; but reading it did not help me in my own journey to wholeness. Marilee is respectful in her honest appraisal of her family, but I still wonder why she needed to write a book about it.
I think many of us could write memoirs of pain and disappointment from our childhood. That pain seems magnified when the parent is glorified by all those around you.
