Time After Time: A Memoir

by Susan D. Anderson

It’s the 1950’s. On a tree-lined street in a suburb of Boston, moms stay home to raise children while dads take trains into the city to work. It’s the age of modern conveniences and upward mobility. Life is peaceful.

Inside one house in the neighborhood, however, one child is living a nightmare. Susan’s mother hates her with a raw and terrible hatred. Day by day she finds new ways to strip away Susan’s rights, her sense of belonging, her everyday activities and her dignity. Neighbors, friends, relatives and members of her immediate family find themselves impotent bystanders, unable to intervene.

Many children have to live all of their childhood and teen years, as Susan did, inside these family-based psychological endurance tests. Some do not survive, becoming broken in spirit and unable to cope. Time After Time is a case study of one child’s tenacity and ultimate triumph over horrific emotional deprivation. This story commands us to breach the sanctity of the family enough to help the children – and the parents – who are suffering from psychological illness.

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