The Laid Daughter :
A True Story
by Helen Bonner, Ph.D.
What does a little girl remember about incest?
What does a father do to forget? Can the secret stay hidden?
This riveting story reveals the nightmare of sexual slavery and the healing power of truth!
Helen Bonner
Dr. Helen Bonner earned a PhD in Communications, Creative Writing/Screen Writing in l982. While still an undergraduate, her Night Dreams, was awarded best screenplay by Ohio State University. This play and her one act play, Mary's House, were both produced by the University. Helen won a scholarship to the Squaw Valley Screenwriter's conference, and her story, Roadside Trinity won first place in the University of Texas writer's awards. Her screenplay, A Higher Loyalty: the Jeannette Rankin Story was optioned in Los Angeles the following year.
Since then, Helen Bonner has taught Literature and Women's Studies in colleges and universities in Minnesota and California, and now writes full time in her Northern California mountain home.
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"Forty years later, remembering, I shook my head ... I sat down and tried again to read the pencil marks, etched more than fifty years ago, on the backs of white-edged snapshots, explanations lost in fuzzy, black felt smears. Clues, I was looking for. A response to that child wandering through the dark house, her rage in one hand and her love in the other." From The Laid Daughter by Helen Bonner |