Donna Nieri - Biographic eBooks

A Child Interrupted - A True Story of Violence and Fear

This book relates a true story of a sister and brother's traumatic childhood abuse. My brother and I were products of parents who were themselves carrying about abuse and neglect. Consequently we were recipients as well, taking it inwardly as most children do. My mother took us from our father, partly due to his alcoholism. We went from one end of the country to the other by train. I was six and my brother was three.

We were boarded with strangers, in an eastern state and left for an indefinite period of time. My mother eventually came to get us and that is when the moving began. When I visited my father he boarded me in a boarding school. When he came to see me I begged him to let me go home with him, but to no avail. I was probably about eight years old. They put my brother in a military school around six years old.

Our mother was a very angry and flighty person and would uproot us at any time she became dissatisfied, which was often. We would get settled and she would announce we were moving again. No time to focus in school, make friends or become a part of the community. She lived with several abusive men. Things were done that would leave our heads reeling, with stomach aches, nightmares and disrupted sleep.

We lived mostly in old mining towns in Nevada. In little shacks that were drafty and cold with outhouses that were dark and scary. When we went to bed we always checked our sheets for any scorpions or spiders. After we moved to Nevada the compulsive gambling started using the food money to gamble. We would have to wait in the freezing car half the night or movie theaters until very late. Another night of plundering their money, resulting in fear, hunger and humiliation.

I have written this narrative of prose and poetry about our experiences and how we were led to recovery through a Power Greater than ourselves. Some are alarming and some humurous. I hope that the amusing ones will take precedence in the mind of the reader. The next series of books below relate an on going recovery and challenges of life.

A Child's Journey Through Darkness - A spiritual narrative in prose and poetry addressing mental illness among abused children. The author takes the reader through her own journey in mental illness and reaches out to abused adult children with a message of hope and recovery.

Weeping Child To Forgiving Child - With child abuse, children often leave themselves psychologically when things are too much for them to bear. Because of that extreme trauma it is difficult to forgive the offenders. This book's prose and poetry takes the reader from that resentment to forgiveness.

And The Child Grew Up - The story of a child becoming an adult, learning how to cope with life, letting go of survival tools and finding recovery. Written in poetry and prose.

Love Letters to Daddy - Poetic memoirs written to an alcoholic father long since passed. These writings try to reconcile the negative influences he left upon his daughter. Sharing with the reader how she found hope and help.

Mining Town Girl - A story of two children abruptly removed from their home and father. Taken to a dismal land, one of difficulty and abuse. How they learned to cope and later turning it into lessons that would be crucial in learning perseverance and trust.

Wanderlust - Revised edition with new poems. A sequel to Mining Town Girl. Children who survived their experiences in frightening mining towns, and how they turned their experience into lessons of life and survival. To help the reader who can relate and share this with others.

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