When Rabbit Howls (Book Club Edition)

BOOK CLUB EDITION When she was two years old, a little girl was raped by her stepfather, and for the next fourteen years she was continually abused, emotionally and physically, not only by her stepfather, but by her mother as well. As Truddi Chase would put it, the child "went to sleep" at the age of two, and in her place, arriving when they were needed, came a variety of persons, inhabiting the same body, but each with a distinct personality, and a distinct role to play in defense of the sleeping child. Because they care so deeply about the subject of child sexual abuse, the Troops let the therapy sessions be videotaped for educational purposes, and they began to write a book about themselves for publication. When Rabbit Howls is that book, and it is an amazing document.