Tag: Domestic Violence

• Review of “Hurt Go Happy”

  Animal Cruelty, Deaf, Disability Pride Month, Domestic Violence, Sign language

  Some books are just heartbreakingly sad and yet you still find yourself almost compelled to read them. Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby is one of them. It tells the story of Jess, a young girl who is about thirteen when the story starts. Jess is mostly deaf after an incident when she was seven…

• Review of “Tiita’s Daughter”

  Domestic Violence, Inuit

  Tiita’s Daughter is a biographical novella written by Tuutalik Boychuk. It tells the story of Julia, a child and later a woman, who lived through abuse at the hands of her biological parents. In doing so it also shows how Julia was able to stop the cycle of abuse from continuing past her. This was…