Her Last Death By Susanna Sonnenberg

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In world filled with hate and broken trust there should always be people in your life you can look to for hope in humanity as you know they will always be there with your best interest at heart. But what happens when those people are no longer there? What happens when those people begin to change and lose your trust? In Susanna Sonnenberg’s memoir, Her Last Death, Sonnenberg takes the reader through her childhood and past experiences with her unstable relationships with her divorced parents. Sonnenberg begins to conclude her reasoning for making her decisions in life as she connects them to her past. Sonnenberg continuously takes jabs at her mothers constant need for attention from men as she has a new man around practically daily and her mothers

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