The Residue of a Father

A young child plunged into weekend visits with a misogynistic and abusive father tries to navigate her way through her childhood. Overcoming a broken parental relationship and trying to learn to love herself, Melissa Moy takes readers through pieces of her traumatic childhood. With nods to her multicultural background we get insight into what perseverance and survival means to a child of bitter divorce and the residue that a father can leave upon his daughter.