Common knowledge says that when you are being severely abused, you should seek help immediately, or deescalate the situation such as calling authority or withdraw yourself from the situation to let the anger degenerate. Although this is known, what would you do if you loved the person dearly, you could not live with out this person? What would you do if this person was your will to survive, the fire inside you that without it, the fire would extinguish? If they were to die, how would you cope? In Leigh Stein’s memoir Land of Enchantment, Stein takes the reader through her struggle of being abused and all the sacrifices she has to endure to leave the unfortunate situations she has encountered makes this one of the most thoughtful and compelling
