A Private Family Matter: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743487893 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Why Families Matter I truly could not put this book down once I picked it up and began reading. Vic Rivas is a brave soul for sharing this difficult and heart-rending account of growing up a household with an abusive father. This story is a hero's journey. I was particularly driven to hours of contemplation over this book because I grew up down the street from the Echeverria home where Vic was given shelter, love and . Barbie Durbin said From War Zone to Advocate. Victor Rivers is a handsome man. Movie star, college educated, Football player.A big, strong, tough man who was reduced to weeping when taken back to his horrific childhood in countless nightmares. So terrifying, so brutal for his wife to endure, she could only cry as he fought the demons of domestic violence.Countless women have told their stories. Hoping to save, `just one person.' Reliving their. "Domestic violence Latino family" according to Joseph R. Gutierrez. Excellent book if you are interested of the effects of domestic violence on the Latino family with their perspective.
The heart-breaking, yet powerfully uplifting story of a family in crisis, and how one man rises from the shadow of a violent, brutal father to become a shining example of transcendance.This is a story about how I was saved by love, at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue. So begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of his escape from the war zone of domestic violence—too often regarded as a “private family matter”—and his journey toward independence, recovery, and renewal. A Cuban immigrant, Victor's dad was nicknamed El Ciclón for his tempestuous temperament, which led him not only to beat his wife but to abuse—and eventually kidnap—his own children. How Victor managed to seek help for his family and criminal punishment for his father, overcome his demons and learn to love himself, and share his experience with
An imaginative child, Rivers steeled himself against brutal whippings by emulating tigers, "tensed and ready to pounce or flee at all times." By the time Rivers was 15, he fought back, throwing Rivas to the floor. All rights reserved. His story starts in Cuba, where his mother's "gift of sight" didn't help her see through the seductive elegance of Tony Rivas, nephew of Batista's minister of agriculture. But when the older man returned with a knife and, experiencing deep feelings of guilt, yelled, "Kill me!" Rivers ran away. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Photos. The family moved to Chicago to escape Castro, yet young Victor could not e