Dysfunctional Families


The Glass Castle
Sharp Objects
The Goldfinch
Eleanor & Park
Educated
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Running with Scissors
The Dinner
Orphan Train
Everything I Never Told You
I'm Glad My Mom Died
The Dutch House
Gone Girl
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
Dark Places
Beautiful, Complicated Family by Rosey LeeWho Colored the Leaves? by Robert D. DeanThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Last House on the Street by Diane ChamberlainUnveiled by Courtney Milan
Best Family-themed Stories
65 books — 24 voters

Crazy For Alice by Alex DunnConflict of Intrigues by ML YostDaddy Morebucks by Normandie AllemanSpilled Coffee by J.B. ChicoinePortrait of a Girl Running by J.B. Chicoine
Characters with daddy-issues
26 books — 20 voters
The Foxhole Court by Nora SakavicThe Raven Boys by Maggie StiefvaterPied Piper by Nevil ShuteCrooked Kingdom by Leigh BardugoThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Castaway Fams
9 books — 7 voters

Shattering Silence by Darlene LekowskiWe Were a Nice Normal Family by Patricia GrenelleWe Were a Nice Normal Family by Patricia A. GrenelleThe Deepest Well by Nadine Burke HarrisThere Once was a Girl by Bobbie Tea
Abuse Memoirs
16 books — 11 voters

You can place accountability onto the Generational Dysfunctional Family System that conditioned you AND still accept responsibility for continuing the Generational Dysfunctional Family System.
Deanna L. Lawlis

Erin Merryn
She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had suffered the physical and emotional pains of sexual abuse and whose lives were changed forever. The two cannot even be compared, yet when someone is in denial about what happened, they cannot perceive what is true. It seemed too hard for her to let her mind go there and believe her grandson could do such terrible things.
Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

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