Truly great book and I highly suggest it. It starts off as a kind of adventure story and it is a kind of adventure story throughout. But at it’s core, it’s about overcoming adversity and unfortunately…overcoming bad parenting. A remarkable story.
Her experience is a message to all parents who are using their kids to make $ to advance their own dreams while neglecting the needs of their children. I see these parents doing it with you-tube channels. The trolls in this comment chain can’t negate the fact of Suzzane being hostage on a boat for so many years by her parents narcissistic abuse. What a deluded abusive father and her mother-there are no words to adequately describe her abuse.
This story is not entirely true and misses very important facts that the author has left out and altered. Did anyone ask the treating doctor if she really had a fractured skull or just a bump on her head? As for the many other omissions… “I had to find out if he remembered what I remembered.” Oh, and she’s using photos in your presentation she doesn’t own and doesn’t have permission to use.
Woman exposes isolation, international abandonment, enslavement and being denied an education. She claws her way out of the situation and goes on to be a contributing citizen with an education. You dismiss her. People like you are the reason that many other women don't speak out and don't make it.
Take out the head injury part of the story and it’s still ABSOLUTELY selfish of her narcissistic parents who make NO decisions on what’s best for raising kids (primarily launching them into adulthood) and treat them as property lugging them along to fulfill their life goals. Suzanne does a wonderful job of spearheading the discussion of what’s a parent’s responsibility to their children to prepare them for the world and adulthood.
Truly great book and I highly suggest it. It starts off as a kind of adventure story and it is a kind of adventure story throughout. But at it’s core, it’s about overcoming adversity and unfortunately…overcoming bad parenting. A remarkable story.
It's not true
It’s sad. Her parents made some very selfish decisions unfortunately.
Her experience is a message to all parents who are using their kids to make $ to advance their own dreams while neglecting the needs of their children. I see these parents doing it with you-tube channels. The trolls in this comment chain can’t negate the fact of Suzzane being hostage on a boat for so many years by her parents narcissistic abuse. What a deluded abusive father and her mother-there are no words to adequately describe her abuse.
Her "experience" is full of lies, distortions and narcissism.
I read the book in January and it’s now easily one of my favorite memoirs.
It's largely fantasy.
This story is not entirely true and misses very important facts that the author has left out and altered.
Did anyone ask the treating doctor if she really had a fractured skull or just a bump on her head?
As for the many other omissions… “I had to find out if he remembered what I remembered.”
Oh, and she’s using photos in your presentation she doesn’t own and doesn’t have permission to use.
Woman exposes isolation, international abandonment, enslavement and being denied an education. She claws her way out of the situation and goes on to be a contributing citizen with an education. You dismiss her. People like you are the reason that many other women don't speak out and don't make it.
She exaggerates so many things to sell book including her "brain surgery"
Considering Suzanne was a child in the 70’s when she got her head surgery, the treating doctor is probably dead just saying
She found and met the treating doctor. He told her her "recollection" of events was wrong. His name is Dr Snelart.
Take out the head injury part of the story and it’s still ABSOLUTELY selfish of her narcissistic parents who make NO decisions on what’s best for raising kids (primarily launching them into adulthood) and treat them as property lugging them along to fulfill their life goals. Suzanne does a wonderful job of spearheading the discussion of what’s a parent’s responsibility to their children to prepare them for the world and adulthood.