Life Trap - Savanna Whitehall

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Résumé :
Savanna Whitehall's book Life Trap opens in 1962 when her protagonist, Beth Williams, at age sixteen, dreamed of becoming a singer. In that same year, unfortunately, her dreams were shattered when she was raped by a friend of her brother. Learning soon thereafter that she was pregnant, she was forced by her mother to marry the man who had raped her. Thereafter followed many years in which Beth was ensnared within a Life Trap, a Hell on Earth, of daily, unending domestic abuse, and four more children conceived through rape by her husband. Ultimately, her husband stabbed her, then fled and disappeared, leaving her a single mother of five children. Although Beth's wound was not life-threatening, in a cruel and tragic twist of fate her oldest child, her firstborn son, was stabbed to death as a young adult. As a testament to Beth's will to survive, as well as to her uncommon strength of character, however, she endured all of her trials. Ultimately, she was able to build for herself a good and positive life. Savanna's compelling book, then, is both a cautionary tale of how a young woman can be swept up in a Life Trap comparable to Beth's, and an ultimately inspiring story of how the human spirit can triumph over the most difficult and adverse of circumstances.