Dont You Know I Love You, Laura Bogart
Dont You Know I Love You, Laura Bogart
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Don't You Know I Love You

Author: Laura Bogart

Narrator: Hope Newhouse

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/27/2022


Synopsis

The last place Angelina Moltisanti ever wants to go is home. She barely escaped life under the roof, and the thumb, of her violent but charismatic father, Jack. Yet home is exactly where she ends up after an SUV plows into her car just weeks after she graduates from college, fracturing her wrist and her hopes to start a career as an artist.
Angelina finds herself smothered in a plaster cast, in Jack's obsessive urge to get her a giant accident settlement, in her mother Marie's desperation to have a second chance, and in her own stifled creativity - until she meets Janet, another young artist who inspires her to push herself into making the dynamic, unsettling work that tells the story of her scars, inside and out. But excavating this damage, as relations with her father become increasingly tense, will push Angelina into making a hard choice: will she embrace her father's all-consuming and empowering rage, or find another kind of strength?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krystelle on June 06, 2020

This is an extraordinarily well-written family drama, with all the insidious carryings of the cycle of abuse married with a coming-of age-story that results in the reader feeling physically exhausted by the weight of it. The story follows a young art school graduate who ends up in a car crash which......more

Goodreads review by Judi on March 25, 2020

I bought this because I saw the author’s comment on Twitter that she was bummed her book coming out during the pandemic. I had no idea what it was about. I didn’t read the blurbs. Just ordered it on Amazon and dive in the day it arrived. I found the subject matter challenging, but handled with a sur......more

Goodreads review by Heather on April 11, 2020

A deeply compassionate look at the long shadow of childhood abuse that frames both the abused and, surprisingly, the abuser as complex, flawed, and damaged human beings. The story is firmly centered on Angelina, a young woman forced to return to her childhood home and the father whose years of physi......more

Goodreads review by clumsyplankton on August 17, 2023

Extremely well written had me hooked the entire time......more

Goodreads review by Margo on April 10, 2020

The trauma at the heart of Don’t You Know I Love you manifests in every aspect of Angelina’s life. Her arm breaks in a car accident, forcing her to return to her parents’ house. Old wounds from her father’s physical abuse, never fully healed, reopen when it’s clear his love for her is as twisted as......more