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Ebook About Robbie Young is an ordinary twelve-year-old boy about to drop a bombshell that will devastate his small town family. One day he rides his bike home after school, finds his mother in the kitchen making dinner, and speaks aloud the secret he's been keeping for a year, "Jerry Houseman's been touching me." Robbie has been molested and the Young family will never be the same. From that moment on, the novel unfolds with inexorable power. The story is narrated in four parts: first by Robbie's mother, then by Jerry Houseman himself, then by Houseman's wife Linda, and concluded by Robbie himself fifteen years later, when he has returned to town for a high school reunion. Each voice is remarkably persuasive and utterly convincing, and the result is a novel that is impossible to put down as it is impossible to forget.Book Touched: A Novel Review :
I had the Sample of this novel downloaded for a long time. I was never sure whether or not I wanted to read about such a topic. Oh how glad I am that I finally did. The author picked the perfect characters to portray their experience through it all. There is no 'sensationalism' in the story. There's no mystery. It's very clear this was a wrongful act committed. This novel is a poignant peek into those closely associated with ('touched' by) the molested young boy.I can really add nothing to the wonderful Editorial Reviews. I can only quote some passages from each of the characters' chapters that stood out to me:Robbie's Mother:"It's scary to have a teenage son: You feel like you're watching them swim a channel full of sharks and swirling currents and all you can do Is sand on the shore and knead your hands and worry whether they'll make it to the other side. But when they do...well, they've reached the other side. They're gone. No longer yours anymore. ""Your children, they change before your eyes, from one thing to another. But I know this child like I know my insides. And in a way, as I watched him cry, I almost felt like my baby was being restored to me, returned to my care. Returned, like damaged goods.""How do you respond to this news? Ask him to draw a picture? Give him a doll to play with? I'd heard that's what they did with children, very little children, but Robbie had the power of speech, he knew how to talk. The odd thing was that all of a sudden it seemed that WE had forgotten how.""I remember watching Robbie at Clark Lake one afternoon. He was playing on the raft with friends' son. I remember being struck by how beautiful he was. For a moment he wasn't my son, he was just this beautiful object that you might want to own, to possess. As I awoke from my dozing I remember being chilled by the thought of having those feelings find their way into the wrong person. Had I taught him? Did he know? The world was fully of crazy people. People who destroy things just because they're beautiful. Did he know about evil in the world? We'd talked about war and murder, we'd told him to be careful of strangers. But had we taught him to be careful of friends."Jerry Houseman:There are passages in his chapter whereby he explains how he feels about some boys when they reach the edge of puberty, "when they're sitting right on the edge of it, part boy, part man-more like just containing a hint of the man that's going to come-the way the air in the fall carries a hint of the winter to come-there's something about a boy at that age that touches me in some way, some really deep-seated way. I don't understand it, never have." There's more to that passage but my point is that it's the WAY the author writes it that is amazing to me-it's an insight to Jerry's mind portrayed in the hands of a very gifted author. Another one: "I thought I was over all of that after I got back from the navy. Over there, all the rules were different and it was possible to slip into a different corner of life. But when we got back to the States, I thought I was clean again. I thought I could just return to who I'd been before, that I could leave that version of me in Manila. And for a long time I did. I now had a wife and children."Jeanette:"To have my whole life reduced to that-an accusation by a child, a child I had befriended, a child now pointing the finger not just at Jerry but at me, because I had chosen Jerry....""I took the attorney's advice and dressed accordingly for the hearing. I wanted to project an image of propriety, but I also wanted the judge to see, I wanted the whole world to see, that I was an attractive woman, a wife from whom a husband would not need to seek an alternative.""I try to imagine what it would be like to find a child sexual. I think of my children when they were younger-the smell of their breath, the touch of their skin, their gurgling helplessness. I loved them so completely, my girls, it was so all-encompassing that I think I did feel sexual feelings-not sexual arousal, but a stirring of the deepest love. It was very much like how I felt with Jerry when we were making love really well. This sense of fusion, of being touched inside by another person where you never could touch yourself, the awareness of a string inside that could be set in motion only by resonating with another string inside someone else, an adding of dimension and depth, a richening of the soul."I found the passages in Jeanette's chapter to be especially thought-provoking...she poses questions endlessly to herself that you truly can only imagine someone in her position doing. For example:"How could Jerry feel that strongly about a child who wasn't his? Was it because Robbie was a boy? If Robbie had been our son, would Jerry have fallen in love with him? He says he wouldn't. Says he couldn't. And as much as I don't know what to believe about Jerry anymore, I do believe that.""So is it that, with other people's children, you don't have to be the protector? You don't have to put up that wall against yourself, that wall you put up when you feel your feelings for your own child edging toward sexual arousal? Instinctively, you block those feelings. It's automatic, un-thought-out. But with other people's children, is the reaction, the wall, quite so automatic? SOMETHING allowed Jerry to take that wall down. Brick by brick. Trembling all the while because I believe my husband violated his own code of ethics. I believe as he removed each brick he knew he shouldn't be doing it. ""Was he in love with Robbie or was he in love with who he thought Robbie was? A little man? But Jerry doesn't WANT a man. He has no interest in men. Just boys of a 'certain age'. That's the absurdity of it. Even if he could succeed in loving a boy of a 'certain age', even if it did no harm to the boy or to me or our family, it's a love that's doomed from the start because the boy is not going to stay that age."The trial scene is straightforward, tasteful. It will bring you to your knees.Robbie:I initially felt a 'let down' after reading Robbie's chapter. I was not sure exactly what he was feeling, where he'd been, where he'd be headed. However, thankfully I went back and re-read all the Reader Reviews. Fortunately there were a few Reader Reviewers who had experienced what Robbie did in their earlier lifetimes. They could relate 100% - thus they were able to provide their personal, poignant thoughts on Robbie's persona. How brave of those Reviewers to put pen to paper, to share with Readers their incredible insights. They really helped me better understand the 20-years-later Robbie.I never read a novel twice. But this just might be an exception some day. I cannot stress enough what an exquisite writer the author is. What a brave things to tackle. Heartfelt kudos for handling it so carefully. Dealing with the difficult subject of child sexual abuse it tells the story from four different viewpoints - the child, his mother, the abuser and his wife. Read it, and let your views, opinions and biases fluctuate through the telling of the story. A very balanced telling of a dynamite story. Read Online Touched: A Novel Download Touched: A Novel Touched: A Novel PDF Touched: A Novel Mobi Free Reading Touched: A Novel Download Free Pdf Touched: A Novel PDF Online Touched: A Novel Mobi Online Touched: A Novel Reading Online Touched: A Novel Read Online Scott Campbell Download Scott Campbell Scott Campbell PDF Scott Campbell Mobi Free Reading Scott Campbell Download Free Pdf Scott Campbell PDF Online Scott Campbell Mobi Online Scott Campbell Reading Online Scott CampbellDownload Mobi Haven: A MM Paranormal Mystery Romance By Morgan Brice
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