"To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross's childhood-growing up in a 'nice' Jewish family in middle-class Long island-seemed as wholesomely American as any other. But behind closed doors, Jessica suffered years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her father, whose mood would veer unexpectedly from loving to violent." -- From page 4 of cover.

"Portions of chapter 12 originally appeared in a December 20, 2013 New York Times Magazine essay entitled "Life with Bella." --From title page verso.