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The Girl in the Treehouse: A Memoir

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Imagine...growing up in an unfinished geodesic dome home with no heat or running water, wearing the same clothes to school every day, and eating breakfast cereal with warm goat milk. In this whimsical, poetic, and gripping autobiographical account, Jennifer Asbenson describes her abusive, dysfunctional, and chaotic upbringing, her abduction and escape from a serial killer, her years in and out of mental hospitals, her decision to heal herself, and ultimately, her path to wholeness. Jennifer tells how, from her youngest years, she learned to retreat into her imagination to develop the ability to survive. The Girl in the Treehouse is a profoundly compelling story, told with humor, honesty, and without self-pity, of Jennifer’s emergence from mental illness and despair to happiness, through the power of forgiveness and self-love.

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Engaging Memoir • Powerful Story • Excellent Narration • Inspiring Resilience • Triumphant Redemption

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I was sad to hear about the drugs the author used to work through her feelings. It’s understandable though due to everything she went through.

The author’s voice was authentic and unique.

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Showed what faith can do to cary a person through the darkest hours of life to the light.

Unbelievable

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This was a story that taught me a lot about about mental illness and children who live in poverty and neglect. It is well written and the narration was excellent. I was engaged throughout the entire audio book and was in suspense about several different parts throughout.

Excellent Memoir with Great Narration

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This is overall a good story.
The author did go through a lot in her childhood and as a young adult. The story is well told in the beginning but then as the book goes along the writing style seems to change and not in a positive way.
The writing tends to go off on tangents sometimes and can be hard to follow. The details at times get lost.

The narration is very poor for this book. There are so many obvious corrections and dubbed lines. The narrator tends to overdramatize some parts that don’t need to be

Overall a good story

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I listened to this audiobook while mowing and literally had to stop a few times in disbelief at how this girl's parents AND the authorities completely & utterly failed this young woman, especially that piece of garbage mother of hers. The authorities should be deeply ashamed of themselves as well. Jennifer is a strong, courageous woman who did nothing to deserve the trauma of abusive parents and then being ignored by law enforcement.

The horror this girl went through....

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