I'll never call him dad again : turning our family trauma of sexual assault and chemical submission into a collective fight / Caroline Darian ; [translation, Stephen Brown].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darian, Caroline, author.

Contributor:

Brown, Stephen, translator.

Standardized Title:

Et j'ai cessé de t'appeler papa. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Darian, Caroline--Family.

Darian, Caroline.

Pelicot, Gisèle.

Pelicot, Dominique.

Rape victims--Family relationships--France--Mazan.

Rape victims.

Rape--France--Mazan.

Rape.

Trials (Rape)--France.

Trials (Rape).

Families--France.

Families.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

I will never call him dad again

Place of Publication:

Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, 2025.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"The trial of Dominique Pelicot, which began on 2 September 2024, has captured the world's attention. Behind the haunting details of Pelicot's unthinkable crimes are a mother and daughter who were forced to rebuild their lives. This is their story. In November 2020, Caroline Darian received a call from the police in Carpentras. Her father was in police custody. The seizure of his computer equipment revealed the unthinkable: since 2013, he had drugged his wife before handing her over, in a state of unconsciousness, to men, from all ages and stages of life. With exceptional courage, Darian recounts the earth-shattering discovery that a loved one, her own father, is capable of the worst. But more importantly, she shares the remarkable story of her mother Gisèle and how she carried on living, without self-pity, while learning to manage all of the things her husband once took care of. She shares how her mother managed to maintain her joie de vivre in circumstances none of us could imagine. Gisèle has won acclaim around the world after she gave up her right to anonymity and opted for a public trial, a trial in which Caroline herself has testified, turning the tables: the shame no longer borne by the victims in silence but directed, at last, to the abusers. Together, mother and daughter reveal another side to the violence committed against women, as they bravely transform their private trauma into a collective fight."--page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Originally published as Et j'ai cessé de t'appeler papa in 2022.

ISBN:

1464257957

9781464257957

OCLC:

1484603830