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Twisted Roots of Evil

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An abuse and incest victim as a child, Susan Kesegich struggledto understand how it could happen to herself and her sisters. Borninto a poor, rural family that often went without food, electricity and plumbing, Kesegich and her four siblings suffered extreme neglect, sexual, mental, and physical abuse with intervention by responsible adults, school, church or community agencies. Kesegich was eventually able to understand her childhood traumas and work to help other women and children through volunteer efforts at a local child abuse center and become trained as a special court appointed advocate for children. Twisted Roots Of Evil is vivid, candid, shocking, and a highly recommended testament to conditions that still persist in all too many areas of the country.

After I picked this book up and started reading it I couldnt put it down. The author is so vivid in her writing that it keeps you pinned to your seat. While reading the book its as though you can feel the fear that these children lived with on a day to day basis. This book sums up just how cruel some child abuse cases can really be.

A truly amazing book filled with so much feeling on the awful subject of abuse and sexual abuse. I too am a survivor and was so inspired by "Twisted Roots Of Evil"and the courage that Susan shown in this book to stand up and fight for the rights of all of us victims of this terrible and humiliating crime that robs us of all of our innocence. I would buy this book as part of your healing process as I have found it to be of utmost therapy on my road to recovery. Thank You Susan and may God Bless you! Sincerely, Vivian DiGrazia

This was a very good book and it makes you wonder how a husband and father can be so evil, the epitomy of Satan himself almost. The author is a very brave woman and the book is well worth reading. I think I would have gone insane with the abuse she and her siblings suffered. It's a real eye opener too.

Montell Williams interviewed the victims and I had to get the book. This book is well written and describes the horrors that these children went through and into their adult lives. The questions that were unanswered as children, the justice system, some answers, and the shock that another individual had to endure worse by the same hands of the perp. The author shows our human ability to grow past our upbringing to become "normal," successful individuals, yet also relates that remnants shall remain throughout our lives. This book leaves the reader pondering additional questions that cannot be answered.

Could not put it down this was the most heart wrenching book I have ever read. the way the author told the story threw her eyes made it so real to me. this book has made me look at life from a different point of view. I hope we can she more to come.

This book was an eye opening experience for me. Many of us tend to run from our past and refusing to deal with it. When i read the book it made me realize that i am not the only one as a child that has suffered at the hands of a trusted adult and will continue to tell others i know about TWISTED ROOTS OF EVIL, A real page turner, when i read it i had to keep a box tissue near me. Until more people open there eyes and realize this is happening and speak up and stop the abuse then it will continue.

It was the most heart wrenching book I have read in a very long time. I work with abused children in one form or another and it just tears my heart out ...I am thrilled that the family has tried to find peace and is trying to move on.

If you are in an abusive relationship. . . this book will open your eyes! You can survive. The hurt can heal. . . and "you" must learn from the experience of others and break free.