No Longer Silent
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  • I couldn't put the book down!

    Lisa Thomas
    Alexandria, VA
  • This book is down to earth and real. Such a life turn around is astounding. As I read this book it was hard to put down. I love the happy end. Very seldom do we get to hear the amazing success as this young lady has done. I applaud her for her bravery.

    Linda Spokain
    Savannah, GA
  • I read this book because I have a family member who is going through his own challenges with drugs and alcohol. He feels like it's too late to change, I'm definitely going to try to get him to read this....there is always hope

    Ellen Ogletree
    Chicago, IL
  • When I began reading No Longer Silent by Tammy Gagnon, I had no idea I'd be taken on such an intense journey through another's life. Albeit a bumpy and often uncomfortable ride, it was one, nevertheless, that once started, I wanted to finish...Read More

    Kelly Libatique
    Libatique.com
  • In terms of autobiographical self help books, No Longer Silent, by author, Tammy Gagnon, raises the bar, and challenges readers to do more. It is not simply enough to accept the cards you've been dealt, you must choose to be the dealer. Her writing style while simplistic is authentic and allows for the reader to connect almost immediately. No Longer Silent is a raw look at what complex and repeated trauma can do to an individual...Read More

    Holly Casazza
  • Tammy's account of her life in "No Longer Silent" closely follows that of my sister. Born into a family where my father was CHRONICALLY unfaithful, my Mama chose to divorce him back in the fifties with five children who had been born in six years. She was shunned by the entire town. I will not tell you Tammy's story; I hate when that is done in a review. However, Tammy's acting out began as the result of her grandfather and her father's abuse. Filled with anger and a bad self-image, she went about doing everything she could do to destroy any chance she ever had of living what she saw as a "normal" life. Ostracized by everyone, including her own daughter, she felt life was always just not fair. Unfortunately, what was not fair was Tammy's "choice" to self-destruct. Drugs, alcohol and the behavior that so often go side by side with them became her constant struggle. But, Tammy had one thing going for her. As she became older, she began to realize she wanted to be a mother to her children. A good one. She wanted to provide a good home...Read More

    Carolyn F. Piner
  • Simple and sincere true story, written as a journal of one's life, without high artistic or scholarly aspirations, but coming from the heart and author's brutal honesty towards herself. The vicious circle of fatal attraction to "bad boys", drinks and drugs, caused mostly by childhood abuse, was finally, but irresistibly broken by the power of love to herself. and opening to the spiritual guidance. Once opened within for the power of goodness and small, but precious opportunities around, the author discovered that Universe around has a lot of spiritual support for us that lies at the reach of the hand, always.

    Imios Archangelis
  • Despite the grammatical errors, the occasional misspellings and the sometimes stilted sentence structure, this is a book well worth every minute you spend reading it. It is the heart-wrenching story of a sensitive woman whose life was derailed by the sexual molestation of a grandfather when she was a child. As is the case in most sexual violations, the victim feels guilty, not victimized. In peculiar twist of reason, she faults herself for allowing it to happen even though she had no ability to stop it...Read More

    Charles Jacobs
    Woodcliff Lake, NJ
  • This autobiography of the life of Tammy Gagnon, in "No Longer Silent" is truly a metaphorically rich and heart wrenching story. First with the pain, of a young beautiful child, abused physically, sexually and emotionally by her grandfather and then her parents, The story continues with the results of the problems of the family "secrets" and the alcoholic insanity that this child endured...Read More

    Dr. Douglas Bentley
    The Apprentice
  • This book will have you in tears and give you the courage to triumph. It reads very easy and engages the reader in a way few authors can. I highly recommend it!

    Ohio Reader
    Small Town, OH
  • A heartbreaking story of a young girl's struggle to become a truly confident, self-loving, responsible woman and mother. Hurdle after hurdle must be overcome in her young life. Hurdles not of her choosing, and hurdles that were self-inflicted...Read More

    Roger D. Hammond
    Spring, TX
  • I knew up front when I ordered this book that No Longer Silent was going to be a disturbing story, but I wanted to read author Tammy Gagnon's autobiography about her survival through a life of sexual assault, domestic violence, and substance abuse. Tammy relates both the horrible experiences over which she had no control as well as her personal demons that developed as a result of those experiences with blunt candor...Read More

    Michael Link
  • This book sounds like it is being spoken out loud. No longer silent indeed. The authorial voice matches perfectly with the theme...Read More

    Erin Lale
    Henderson, NV
No Longer Silent by Tammy Gagnon