{"product_id":"lk-menzies-every-house-had-a-secret-9798999066534","title":"Every House Had a Secret","description":"The gripping psychological family thriller that is based on a true story follows a childhood shaped by deep emotional trauma, survival, and eventual strength. \"Every House Had a Secret\" chronicles the life of young siblings growing up in 1960s-70s America amid Family secrets, generational pain, and cycles of emotional abuse.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBorn into a home already fractured by manipulation and denial, the narrator faces relentless emotional abuse from her father, and watches her mother endure violence and control.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis book reveals the raw truth of a past-where a sister is kidnapped at seven and attacked again as a teen, a brother who ran away twice to escape relentless physical abuse, and a life unsettled by constant relocations, including a time of homelessness.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Children are awakened at night for cherry counts, spanked with switches on birthdays, and haunted by both physical threats and psychological torment. A father with severe mental illness who keeps coming back-even after being institutionalized-sits at the center of their suffering.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDespite it all, this is a story of resilience. The narrator finds meaning in moments of sweetness-guardian angel sightings, neighborhood friendships, and memories of biscuits and gravy. She survives the horrors of the houses that had secrets. Her brother remains her closest ally. A butterfly tattoo becomes her symbol of freedom.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThrough grief, abandonment, and loss-including the passing of her oldest sister and mother-the survivors go on to create better lives for themselves.","brand":"LKM Story House, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53808001319254,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9798999066534_1.jpg?v=1781814954","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/lk-menzies-every-house-had-a-secret-9798999066534","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}