THE DAUGHTER BOND

At the intersection of vulnerability and strength . . .

A Mother's Haunting Legacy; A Daughter's Journey

 

 

"Irene went behind her desk and sat with a sigh released from a silent place of knowing. She proceeded to annotate her patient's file, the whole time thinking she might want to kill, too, if all that happened to her." 

 

  Reviews:

This is a character-driven story with strong psychological themes. C.P. Florez writes a beautiful tale of a young woman who is driven by the passion to find answers for her patients, even daring to experiment beyond the established norms of scientific inquiry. The characters are solidly written, vividly drawn, and nuanced. I loved the way the author explores the world of people suffering from PTSD and the relationship between Irene and her mother.

Stellar storytelling, beautiful prose, and conflict that is deftly handled.  -- Readers' Favorite

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Florez compellingly illuminates the systemic struggles faced by Puerto Rican women: entrenched racism, cycles of abuse, and the infancy of mental health treatment. These social realities are interjected into Irene's professional battle against Water Freile, a narrow-minded psychiatrist who trivializes PTSD as a short term condition, which Irene refuses with the stark reality that "after seventeen years--seventeen-- at least sixteen percent of rape cases still have diagnosable PTSD."

Comparable Titles: Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied Sing, Jaime Gookett's The Invisible Ones.

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