{"product_id":"9780061974816","title":"How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow does a little girl find her way in a world where nothing is sacred?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2004, Tony Hendra's memoir \u003cem\u003eFather Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul\u003c\/em\u003e, spent thirteen weeks on the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller list. The book detailed his life as a comedian who helped launch the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase, wrote for and edited \u003cem\u003eThe National Lampoon\u003c\/em\u003e, and performed in such cult classics as \u003cem\u003eThis Is Spinal Tap\u003c\/em\u003e, even as he overindulged in alcohol and drugs. But there was a glaring omission in his supposed tell-all confessional: the sexual abuse of his daughter Jessica.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter more than thirty years of silence, Jessica faced a harrowing choice. In this powerful book, she reveals how she came to the decision to publicly confront her father, sacrificing any hope of reconciling with him and setting into motion a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e investigation that shocked the literary world when it broke the story of abuse. But Jessica's account is neither a minor footnote nor an angry response to her dad's bestseller. \u003cem\u003eHow to Cook Your Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e -- titled after a satirical piece her father wrote only a few months before the abuse began -- is an unflinching and unsentimental look at a childhood that never was, set in a time and place straight from the pages of the outrageous magazine that her father helped to create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the backdrop of the 1970s New York comedy scene, the memoir traces Jessica's journey from a lost and abused child to a young woman struggling with bulimia and anorexia to the mother of two who becomes convinced that challenging her father is the only way to reclaim a life that never seemed her own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105275625712,"sku":"9780061974816","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061974816_p0.jpg?v=1763624188","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061974816","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}