Don't Tell Mama - Tony Maguire

Section: Translated Novels

Number of pages: 287 pages

Publisher: Arab Cultural Center

In her novel “Don’t Tell Mama,” Toni Maguire presents painful true events about a young girl who was subjected to one of the most terrifying aspects of primitive and contemporary life, namely physical assault by her father, who was supposed to be the shining essence of her childhood. Her mother’s knowledge of the matter, and her silence about it, stripped the writer of her most precious weapons and left her even more painful. In fact, in the folds and texts of the narrative, the writer’s clear accusation of the spirit of motherhood itself appeared, and dictated to her the question that kept repeating in this incident and that, about the benefit of venerating and sanctifying motherhood.