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Gaining a Sense of Self by Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

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May 2011, no. 331

Gaining a Sense of Self by Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

Sid Harta Publishers, $24.95 pb, 464 pp

Gaining a Sense of Self by Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

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May 2011, no. 331

Gaining a Sense of Self is the record of Wilson’s first twenty-five years, a story that obviously took great courage to revisit, recreate, and publish. Born in 1942 to a couple whose marriage was already disintegrating, Wilson had a childhood of poverty, hunger, and abuse. Her father, initially absent because of his work in the navy, left the family when Wilson was six years old, and she rarely saw him after this. It was from her mother that Wilson suffered physical and psychological abuse. This appears to have started when Wilson was very young: she describes being battered by her mother when she accidentally broke a doll at the age of two.

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