Description
While attending high school with students from affluent families, Kay Broussard met many classmates from dysfunctional families who put up a respectable front for public consumption. Over the years she observed that these familial emotional problems filtered down to infect new generations. Occasionally, she found a classmate who could break the mold to survive emotionally, get life on track and raise children in a happier situation. In these instances, an adult role model often influenced the young persons life. Seeds of the Patriarch tells the story of four generations in one such family. Of three children, Dorothy alone struggles against her fathers tyranny, later reaching out to save her siblings children from her fathers scourge. The patriarch, a closet pedophile, womanizer and miser, is publicly lionized as a pillar of the community. Dorothys mother emerges as a good woman who allows bad things to happen.
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