i finished reading "Silent Boy" by Torey Hayden. I loved it very much. I love memoirs. (by definition memoir means an account of the author's personal experiences)
I also love fictions. But sometimes they are just too good to be true.
The story was about a boy who is so troubled due to his childhood trauma. He claimed to have watched his step father abused his sister to death and how his mother did not do a thing to stop such abuse. This boy is becoming an adult soon and Torey was trying her best to ensure that the boy can survive on his own soon.
While i was reading this book, there was a tragedy involving a three year old girl, Syafia Humairah Sahari who was killed after being abused God knows how long by her mother's boyfriend (so says the society, but a man is innocent until proven guilty by the court) and the mother didn't do anything to stop that. No report, no action to prevent, no whatever, nope...
Syafia had a brother. The brother was interviewed by the media regarding the death of his sister..I wonder if he saw what his mother's boyfriend did to his sister. If he did, i sure hope that he will not end up like the boy in Torey's memoir.
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