Storkbites: A Memoir
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: Marie Etienne
- Publisher: Alluvium Books
- Release Date: August 2003
- ISBN-10: 0974847402
- ISBN-13: 9780974847405
- List Price: $15.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryLike the myth from which the term evolved, Storkbites is a story of mixed messages...of hate masquerading as love, of hidden wounds and pain. Marie Etienne's compelling memoir, set in South Louisiana, paints a powerful picture of murder, suicide, insanity, and alcoholism all humorously juxtaposed with Mardi Gras balls, Christmas celebrations, family fishing trips, and a daughter's coming-of-age. Etienne, the seventh of nine children, takes readers on a harrowing trek past the point of survival, yearning for the love she knows she cannot get from her mother or her husband, but can only hope to give to her own sons. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Insightful
Rating:
It is great when people are willing to share such intimate and meaningful details of there life.
Aaron Bryant: BSW, CSAC Author A Synchronous Memoir of Addiction and Recovery
From South Louisiana
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I was friends with of the Etienne sisters, Penny, for many years. Marie's descriptions were spot on. How often does someone get to read a tell all book about a family which you knew and your hometown. At the beginning of the book, I asked my husband why would someone write a tell all book about your own family. By the end of the book, my opinion had changed. Marie has a passion for writing. Her painful past was a gift to her which she used to tell her first story. Her writing style improved with her second book. I hope she continues. Marie is not short on courage and talent.
Pleasantly surprised!
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Because this isn't published by a major publisher, I wondered if it would be very good. It was! A really poignant, well-written and thought out account told through alternating accounts of the narrator as a child and again as an adult. Worth the time to read, and I will be getting her second book as well.
If you liked Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood...
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Marie Etienne's coming-of-age old-South novel spills over with genuineness. She bared her sole--and don't we all enjoy reading about other people's problems, be it as a voyeur or as a form of accepting one's own self--and in doing so I think she might have brought some inner peace to her life. I wonder if there was fall out from and friends and family. In any case, I liked the book and would recommend it to anyone who liked the Ya-Ya Sisters.
A tough but worthwhile read
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I have to admit that after reading the first five pages of this book that I had to put it down and contemplate whether or not I was going to keep reading. This is a tough story of a wealthy Louisiana family and the secrets they harbor inside their home. Reading about the abuse and the subsequent emotional problems all the children experience was at times painful and uncomfortable but I absolutely could not put it down.
Marie Etienne has written an honest and unflinching account of her childhood and I imagine she made and lost some friends and/or family members in the process. But as she writes in the epilogue, it was a catharsis for her and I believe it is cathartic for the reader as well. It is hard to discuss this book without citing specific incidents and in essence "giving it away" but as an avid memoir fan, I would recommend it wholeheartedly.
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