What Were You Thinking?

Written in her perspective, the child chronicles her life from toddler to teenager, then young adult. When her two alcoholic parents were so inattentive to their toddler that a pedophile uncle found his way into her life, while the adults partied in the next room… When her parents put him into her child’s bed when he was home from a tour at sea in the merchant marine… When they left her alone for weeks with total strangers…When they sent their teen-aged daughter to stay alone with an adult music teacher, then arranged the young girl’s marriage to him and didn’t even attend the ceremony… At every turn, their child could have asked them, What Were You Thinking? Singer, artist, writer, survivor, Sharon relates her life in a colorful, humorous story of growing up as the little person between two adults who were so obsessed with themselves and each other, there was little or no room for her. What were you thinking the last time you received an unwelcome embrace, the last time you felt powerless, the last time you survived? If you find yourself in these pages, take comfort in your triumph.