Rough

Ah, the marathon dance of life.  As children we all wanted it to be endless days at Disneyland, and for some it was, but for the rest, what to do?  See how a child copes with abuse and its aftermath, root for him as he finds the means to recover and come out.  Be an intimate onlooker as the young man falls in love in the Vietnam Era Army- with another man.  Discover how he makes lemonade out of the AIDS Crisis, and just keeps on dancing...  Rough is a book length, It Gets Better.  Rough is A Child Called It, through recovery.  Life isn't a crap shoot.  It's what you make it. A must read for trauma therapists and students of psychology.
The author was a psychiatric nurse at Stanford University Medical Center who specialized in the care of children with eating disorders.  Rough is the compelling account of a boy's recovery from child abuse and is in many ways unlike any such account previously written particularly as it follows the subject through 60 years of life.  Thomas Marshall: "I challenge anyone to read this book and not come away forever changed!"