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Daughter Number Eight: A Memoir of Surviving Sexual Abuse, Breaking the Chains of Shame, and Finding Freedom in Christ
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Publisher: Streamline Books
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Daughter Number Eight is a memoir of survival, identity, and courage. Nada Higuera is the youngest of eight daughters born to Palestinian Muslim immigrants, raised in a home where daughters were measured by marriageability, shaped by honor and shame, and taught that silence was survival.
With honesty and compassion, Higuera writes of childhood sexual abuse, the fierce love of sisters who held one another together through pain, and the long, difficult road from fear toward faith. With striking clarity, she lays bare the world that formed her family-a culture of control, unspoken suffering, and the impossible expectations placed on girls-and the generational wounds carried silently by the women who came before her.
But pain did not have the final word.
This memoir traces Higuera's path from those beginnings to a radically different life: her conversion from Islam to Christianity, her pursuit of law school, and her work defending religious liberty and the sanctity of life in the courtroom. Unflinching in its honesty and deeply redemptive in its arc, Daughter Number Eight speaks directly to women still carrying unspoken shame, to readers who find strength in others' lived experience, and to anyone who believes in the transforming, restoring power of Christ.
Her story is proof that even the deepest silence can give way to voice-and that survival can become testimony.
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