NO MORE: A True Story of Violence and Courage

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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Color Me Butterfly by L. Inspired by a true story, Color Me Butterfly follows four generations of mothers and daughters—haunted by a common specter of domestic abuse—as they discover the strength, hope, and courage to survive. The last thing Eloise Bingham wanted was to leave the comforts of her South Carolina home and family. But at the end of World War II, the young wife follows her husband, Isaa Inspired by a true story, Color Me Butterfly follows four generations of mothers and daughters—haunted by a common specter of domestic abuse—as they discover the strength, hope, and courage to survive.

But at the end of World War II, the young wife follows her husband, Isaac, to Philadelphia—only to experience his sinister and violent temper.

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Paperback , pages. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Color Me Butterfly , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Mar 28, Lashanda rated it it was amazing. I loved this book.

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It takes you back to a time when women stuck by their husbands through the good AND the bad. Today, a lot of us women would have a hard time accepting the choices these ladies made. Lydia introduces us to the curse that affected four generations in her family. Even though each women chose to suffer in silence, they come to accept things for what they were.

Eventually, life changes are made. This book was well written and has great flow. Feb 03, Yasmin rated it it was amazing. I did enjoy this book very much. It gives a very concise look at how women get caught up in abusive relationships and how they come to be in them longer than others would think humanly possible. There are no angels in this book and yet there are countless innocents. Some could criticise this book for not delving deeper and giving the whys for the abusive men.

It is a reality for those in the relationships not to know the reason why. When children get beaten by a parent or both parents it is true I did enjoy this book very much. When children get beaten by a parent or both parents it is true that then the child grows into being abusive as well, but this isn't always the case.

Social and economic factors can be at play, L. Marlow touches on this point, for her characters. But in the case of Lloyd there is no knowing what makes a man like him violent. There are no pat answers to anything in this life.

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Not always a direct cause and effect and unless all readers are in a similar situation some can't comment that there isn't enough background, because maybe in reality there is no way of knowing. It is a tragic story, full of great pain and terrible sadness, however, there is always hope at the root. My one area I felt things didn't altogether gel was the background history. As if we needed a reminder of where in history the people fitted into. But although a family member was affected by these true events it was as tho' the author decided to tell us what a newspaper headline was.

It seemed as tho' it had no real place in the story, if only to tell the passage of years.

None of these events in history had any real bearing on the people in the book. Whether the men lived or died wouldn't have made any difference in these peoples lives. Unless one of those three men or all of them had made a point to expressly discuss and fight to resolve domestic violence nothing would change for the women and their children.

Indeed even now when there is another generation in this family no President has discussed domestic violence. Whether it is physical abuse, verbal abuse, mental abuse or sexual abuse there is a profound silence by governments, officials and other people. It's not any of my business so I'll say nothing is what people say or there must be two sides to this Rape is still rape who ever is involved and what their relation to each other is.

It's still rape even if the other agrees in fear or any other coercion. If a person is reluctant for any kind of sexual activity and would rather say "No" if given the opportunity then it is rape without a doubt.

Domestic violence takes many forms and there is no set way it manifests itself or how people involved react to it. If we know of someone in an abusive relationship we want them to get out of it as soon as possible to save themselves. However, there are many situations in life where this is not possible. There isn't always a shelter for victims, there isn't always money the victims can have readily at hand to flee the abusive home and sometimes the people want to give the abuser another chance to find that person they were initially attracted to or to give any children a sense of "family".

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There are many reasons I won't go into here because I'm not in an abusive relationship. However, I will say this as readers it's not our place to say whether there is more background to the abusers or whether or not the families should have done something before they did. Unless we are one of the individuals in the situation we can't pass comment on things like that, even if some of us are in abusive relationships or have ever been in one, each situation is different even if there are glaring similarities.

Having said all this I think it is a remarkable book and I look forward to L. This is the story of family of women who got caught in a generational cycle of abuse by the men in their lives. I have always been interested in the psychology of what makes a woman stay in such abusive relationships. I did get some insights into their feelings of shame, isolation,damaged self esteem and enduring for their children's sakes. Every slap, punch, kick, or named called I read about hurt me deeply and I hated these men.

However, this book taught me the importance of forgiveness which This is the story of family of women who got caught in a generational cycle of abuse by the men in their lives. However, this book taught me the importance of forgiveness which takes tremendous courage and the distructive nature of hatred. I couldn't understand how they could possibly ever forgive someone who had done so many hurtful things, but I think I get it now.

Mattie said something like,"Years of bitterness doesn't get you anything. It takes time from your life which you can never get back. Another important aspect of this book was the amazing strength of all the mothers. Each dealt with their own personal issues as well as those of each of their children. Each child regardless of age had something going on for their mother to worry about abuse, young pregnancies, mental illness, gangs Many times, they were all needy at the same time. I wish I could just embrace these mothers and tell them their needs are important, too.

Then again, this is part of the reason they allowed themselves to be abused in the first place. This was such a powerful book. I highly recommend it. Dec 16, Nandi Crawford rated it it was amazing Shelves: This isn't the prettiest story but it's someone's story nonetheless. It is a story of four generations of women.

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It starts when Isaac Bingham leaves the South and finds work in the north; when he returns home, he meets the young lady that will become his wife, Eloise, falls in love and brings her north too. It seems when they start having children, the violence began. He would beat her and the kids. Out of that union, This isn't the prettiest story but it's someone's story nonetheless. Out of that union, Mattie, Lydia's mother, grows up and marry the man who becomes her husband and the father for Lydia, and though he's abusive, he ends up dying young.

Lydia, the next generation, gets with the man who is her daughter's father and he's abusive as well. I guess you see the pattern here and for the sake of her daughter, she breaks free from that. This book is about the women who endure the abuse and break free in their own way. Eloise leaves Isaac, but years later after the kids are grown and she divorces him, she goes back only to leave him again.

Or, just as Louis felt the need to screen or distribute the painful narrative by giving parts of it to his sister, to tell part of it in the third person, so the artifice of fiction was necessary to tell this most woeful of stories. A Life of Reading is published by Bloomsbury. Fiction Autobiography and memoir reviews. Order by newest oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All. Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded. Loading comments… Trouble loading?