Having attended Al-Anon and Adult Children of Alcoholics meetings for nine years, I was somewhat familiar with some of the processes described. Love Sick could be considered self-help, in addition to being a memoir, as it reveals the steps an addict must go through in an in-house treatment facility. From its great first sentence: “Every Thursday at noon I have sex with Rick in room #21 of the Rainbow Motel” to the dialogue between addicts in group therapy, the book draws us into Silverman’s universe.
In doing so, Silverman allows us to see, feel, touch, hear and smell the addict’s world. The narrative voice in Love Sick alternates between the one addicted to sex and the sober woman who knows better. “It was hard to find the voice that needed to tell the story,” Silverman said. In a recent interview, author Sue William Silverman revealed that her first memoir, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, poured out of her in three months. In her second memoir, Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction, we come to understand the impact her father’s abuse had as we are taken on a journey through the dark, lonely world of sexual addiction and the road to recovery. In that book, Silverman chronicles a childhood steeped in betrayal of the worst kind-that of a father savagely attacking his young daughter from infancy until the day she left home for college.
Recently, I reviewed Sue William Silverman’s first memoir called Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You. Her craft book is Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir, and she teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.Post #31 – Women’s Memoirs, Book Raves – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, published with W. Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award in creative nonfiction. The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew is part of the American Lives Series with the University of Nebraska Press. Sue William Silverman has a poetry collection, Hieroglyphics in Neon, published with Orchises Press.
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