House of Doors: Surviving Love in the Rural South, by PHD E Carolyn Tucker
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House of Doors: Surviving Love in the Rural South, by PHD E Carolyn Tucker
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House of Doors is the story of a life reassembled and about surviving love in the Rural South
"House of Doors was written for the Katie’s in every culture. The stories offer confirmation for those who are doubted; comfort for those whose stories go unheard; consolation for those seeking guidance; community for those who are alone, neglected, or abandoned; candor for those who are desperate for truth; catalyst for those needing a gentle push to find help; compassion for those feeling guilt or shame in their loss of innocence; condemnation for those who perpetuate the “mis-love” by keeping the secrets, by looking the other way, or by refusing to believe or get involved; and celebration in the survival and triumph that can be achieved through faith, support, and direction. One of the best books I've ever read.... Dr. Tucker touches every element of human emotion. I actually found myself wanting to hold Kate's hand during her soulful journey through the doors of escapism.”
M.T. Arnold – bestselling author, film producer, and president of FC Productions
House of Doors exposes the most-guarded secrets and stories of the rural south through the voice of Katie, a young girl trapped in a web of secret rituals and rites of passage. These stories play out in a nearly always patriarchal, “Good-Old-Boy” culture and follow Katie as she learns to cope and survive “love” that is expressed as control, manipulation, and abuse.
From her child’s voice, the reader understands more than Katie knows how to say. As an adolescent, Katelynn learns to cope with brutal truths; as she matures into adulthood, learning to cope with the dichotomy of revelations about “love” that assault her in flashbacks and night terrors.
Katie’s stories are viewed through changing lenses: female, sibling, victim, and Southern Rural; and the distorted lens of dissociative personalities--the Comforter, the Chastiser, and the Counselor.
The stories (gathered from interviews of survivors and expert informants, through doctoral research and reflection, and during therapy sessions and group discussions) have been creatively altered to protect identities. So, while the characters are fictionalized, the stories are based on the real experiences of countless females in the Rural South.
Perhaps you will understand what Katie is trying to tell. Perhaps you will understand that in every story or joke about a “kissing cousin” and “inbred retard” there is probably a victim—a victim without a voice.
House of Doors: Surviving Love in the Rural South, by PHD E Carolyn Tucker- Amazon Sales Rank: #706611 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .72" w x 5.98" l, 1.04 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Review "One of the best books I've ever read. Dr. Tucker touches every element of human emotion. I actually found myself wanting to hold Kate's hand during her soulful journey through the doors of escapism.... The House of Doors is a true masterpiece." -M.T. Arnold - bestselling author, film producer, and president of FC Productions "With no one to help her, Kate develops creative survival through a sort of suspended animation where segments of un-happy time simply disappear. House of Doors gives a rare glimpse into the seamier sides of rural culture with its twisted normalcy and open secrets. It is Kate's story. A story of abu-sive assaults relayed in detached, haunting narratives. Despite a harsh beginning, Kate becomes adaptive, resilient, and trans-cendent. You will cringe at her sense of normalcy and cele-brate her ability to overcome. Haunting in its descriptions, this book will hold you up to the surprise ending." -Tiffany Colter, award-winning author, editor, writing coach
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great writing----looking forward to the next one By Amazon Customer I have read and re-read House of Doors four times now. Every time, there is something else that jumps out at me and I see more depth to the entire story. Katie's saga is compelling as it develops, ripping into the hideous web of secret abuse that has existed in the rural south for such a long time that it has become an "accepted" behavior in many families who don't seem to realize or care how dysfunctional they really are. In this book, the repercussions of long-term childhood abuse, (whether physical, sexual, or psychological) are exposed for all the lasting harm that the victims endure. Great writing----looking forward to the next one,
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. but worse one will be tormented with her as the young ... By Barbara Heintz E. Carolyn Tucker, Ph.D. a multi-degree professor at The University of Louisville has shown the courage to open doors through "The House Of Doors on the less bucolic and rolling green hills which make up so much of the land given the title of our nation's Bible Belt. I read straight through this courageous book where she shares long standing problems with child abuse as well as the word no one wishes to hear as something which happens, "Incest," the forbidden subject in the buckle of The Bible Belt. As a professor, she has learned the two states where the highest number of incest cases are reported are Kentucky and Tennessee. She manages to make her early memories of the bucolic back roads of her childhood and where they are living almost as a bohemian retreat, for this is post war and mid-century with amusing descriptions of her mother's decor in an ordinary Appalachian home. A little girl plays, and we meet Katie within her earliest years for this is a gifted child who will read before entering school, and on her own her games are very inventive as her imagination runs in a colorful stream of one precocious act after the other. Then we learn that cousins, Ronnie and Raymond have other kinds of play which involve their toys between her legs, but worse one will be tormented with her as the young male cousins think it's fun and the tears will not last long as they engage in, "The game," which will leave you chilled and we will see a little child feel she must inflict even worse hurt in the area for which the boys have special farm boy names.//We are meant to be shocked, for such play has been brought in to the American literature using terms like, "Kissing Cousins," which people use without giving one thought to it's meaning.//Katie, from beginning to the end of the book will have as her first concern her disabled sister, Joanne who was born with cerebral palsy, and one soon learns the fun mother at the beginning of the book has no inclination to protect her girls even though Milla becomes more confrontational with her husband James through out the book. Why does Milla not intervene, and why does, Maw Jewel, the Matriarch as Jame's mother's only conscience? Is it the Bible Belt tradition of women and children to be servants and to obey the men of the house, or, "The Good Ole' Boys," who claim higher status as the heads of households from the misreading of St. Paul's commend for wives to obey their husbands which is followed in scripture with; "Husbands love your wives as Christ loved his church? Is it pure isolation and the idea that any one coming in to family matters which on the back roads have developed this place for too long, because no one has the voice to speak the words, "Incest and Abuse," and we will know that Professor Tucker knows even more about these reasons that have been ignored in Southern Literature, for when you are valued as a woman in a book, then you are going to be cute, smart talkin', and having such a divine time which has a Julia Robert's like figure running from Daddy's big ole'' mansion getting ready for the weddin." Dr. E. Carolyn Taylor knows well that from the fields of cattle, beautiful horses, and roads which will lead you where it is not always easy to walk to the store; a time has come for the women and children of Bible Belt raising to know there is a safe place for them.// How can you, "Fall in love with a father?" Katie has so opened her heart as she grows on in to the high school girl and the young woman that you will see how an innocent daughter is used as a love object, for dialogue and how to deal with confrontation is too often held back when the pastor or a social worker tries to get involved.//Milla, the mother of Katie is, in my opinion, a hand held mirror of a woman who loses everything for lack of intervention. She is happy enough with her little babies, and she is willing to live on the least amount of money possible--But Dr. Tucker will take you from Milla's early marriage on in to a woman who cannot recognize herself.// This book is not a discourse on how to criticize the Mid Atlantic South and deface all of the wonderful little churches which dot the countryside. Usually the churches are the first places one would go for help, but the further from a center city one finds themselves, even the pastors may have grown up in the same communities, and they may have little training in counseling the young lovers or of helping men and women to understand that Christ love his church over all things, for the people--You and me; we are church.//I love this book, descriptions of a land I know well, and Dr. Tucker's gift of writing in dialect now and again all are part of what we raised there will take with us as we go. Few know the character it takes to bring up the most unspeakable language turned in to the reality of what people use as their funny computer jokes, for one can say so much about, "Good Ole Boys," and, "Hillbillies," but Dr. Tucker is one who is finally asking through her own legacy and the lives of others; "When are we going to start taking these issues seriously?" With the help of a real life's love in Lance, Katie will know another life--But I'm left desiring to do more and more for Appalachian women and children to help them to know what might have always been needs to be changed, and it might have to be within the schools where first teachers need training in recognizing these children who look as they feel--The weight of the world is on them, and the one who they might regard as a support person may be a demon in disguise. Barbara Everett Heintz, Writer, RN,BSN
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Finding voice through Katie eyes. By lynda Cartwright Harrison House of Doors is the voice of the voiceless. The Voice for all who were told to "NEVER TELL". The right of passage to the good ole boys club runs rampant in the rural south. Katie found her voice when she opened the door to her own rights of passage....the door that opened to truth, understanding, and ultimately freedom.
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