Tuesday, December 11, 2012  Call Me Tuesday by Leigh Byrne (CBR-
IV #50)  Cannonball Read IV: Book #50/52 Published: 2012
Pages: 328 Genre: Nonfiction  This book is supposedly a
"fictionalized account of a true story", but is listed on
Goodreads as nonfiction so I'm not sure EXACTLY what that means,
but nonetheless, it's a compelling novel about child abuse.
Tuesday (named after actress Tuesday Weld) endures horrific
physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her mother
after the death of her older sister. Her sister had polio and
died after complications from the Hong Kong flu.   Soon after
her sister's death, Tuesday's mother receives a brain injury
after a fall down the stairs. She's never the same after that
and blames Tuesday for killing her other daughter. Tuesday has a
few younger brothers who are treated normally, so she just
assumes that her mother hates her. She is always being
"punished", but never knows what she did to be in trouble. The
physical abuse is horrific, but the mental abuse is awf