Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
Stubiquitous violence when you are still small it’s not just the worst thing that can happen to a helpless creature.
It is an irreversible fact which immediately forces those who do not yet have the tools to rework what happened to make a fundamental choice: free yourself, telling someone or carry that burden on your shoulders.
I was thinking about it these days when the story of young gymnasts forced to suffer abuses and impositions from their coaches is in the spotlight.
It’s amazing how quiet this story has shrouded so far, a silence that calls into question, in addition to those directly responsible, those among the parents who were aware of what was happening.
However, this is not always the case. Sometimes, especially when the violence is perpetrated in the family, which corresponds to 80 percent of cases of molestation, the child chooses to keep quiet with everyone.
“Don’t tell anyone” by Gabriella Carmagnola (Editors Guide).
What drives a creature to make such a challenging choice and what this entails for the rest of its life is the theme of Do not tell anyoneengaging novel by Gabriella Carmagnola, just released in the bookstore (Editor Guide).
The protagonist, Lucia, born into a family of the wealthy Lombard bourgeoisie, finds her executioner at home who inflicts violence on her in what at first seemed like a game.
She chooses to keep quiet. But the burden, which she decides to take on, grows over the yearswhile the awareness of the abuse becomes fear, anger, desire for revenge, which download to others. And especially about herself.
Lucia will be able to channel this negative energy into a successful career, between ups and downs, challenging everyone to the upside and always risking on their own. But it is in human relationships that he will have to work the hardest to recover trust in others, which is often put to the test.
The protagonist will succeed by facing a path that will return her to the light, in a sort of rebirth which will bring her out of the womb again.
I recommend this book, to be read up to the last line, to anyone who hasn’t yet cut the umbilical cord with their suffering, to anyone who keeps silent, to anyone who can’t stop wondering why.
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