![]() ![]() His only companion was a toy piano, his secret friend until the day his mother smashed it. ![]() His sister was better behaved so was allowed to sit in the restaurant all day. His father was driven to a diabetic death by his wife when Peter was nine. Turns out he was locked in his room every day from birth to school age while his Chinese mother ran a store and restaurant. Peter is a pianist in a successful band but at 43 is still a virgin, and none of the erectile dysfunction drugs available in 1986 are helping. We are invited into her office and allowed to share in the exploration of childhoods that no one deserved and weaker victims would not have survived. ![]() She shares the stories of five of her clients in "Good Morning, Monster." These are not written with academic detachment but with empathy, deep caring and the occasional wit that her memoirs displayed. All were bestsellers, as was her novel, "Seduction."īut before becoming a writer, Gildiner spent 25 years in private practice as a clinical psychologist. She followed it with her teen years, "After the Falls," and her coming of age at U of T and Oxford in the 60s ("Coming Ashore"). My family read it and laughed aloud that Christmas. "Too Close to the Falls," about her early life as the daughter of a pharmacist in Niagara Falls, New York, was published in 1999. "Good Morning, Monster: five heroic journeys to recovery", Catherine Gildiner, Viking, 359 p., $23.99 paperback, ebook and audiobook availableĬatherine Gildiner is best-known for her memoirs. ![]()
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