"To the Man I Called Father"

by Jonah Thorne

A father's hero becomes his daughter's monster.
A true story of abuse, betrayal, and hard-won forgiveness — for readers of Educated and A Child Called It.
# Memoir
# Nonfiction
# True Crime
# Family Life
# Christian
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For fifty-two years, no man stood taller in Jonah Thorne's eyes than his own father — the man who taught him to work hard and to believe in justice. Then he discovered that same man had been abusing his daughter for years. What followed was a decade caught between two loves that could not survive each other: for the father who built him, and for the daughter that same man nearly destroyed. This is the unflinching account of that war — a son grieving the hero he lost while a father pursues the monster who remains. It is the story of a family that closed ranks around the abuser and turned on the son who was betrayed, of a justice system that moved like a glacier, and of the two forces that refused to let him lose anything else: a daughter who would not be silenced, and a wife who would not break. It is a story about the weight of secrets — and the hard truth that silence is what lets evil thrive in the dark. It is about losing everything: a father, a family, a faith, the boy he once was and the man he believed himself to be. And it is about the long, unlikely road back — to his wife, his children, his faith, and a forgiveness no one thought possible. For anyone who has carried something like this alone — proof that they never truly are.