Girl Like Us Rachel Lloyd Analysis

Girl like Us, by Rachel Lloyd, is a memoir the author’s childhood traumatic experiences such as not feeling love by her mother, being abandended by her father, and molested by her stepfather. “As a girl you reserve your harshest judgment for your mother; as a woman, you see yourself, for better or for worse, in your daughter and you’re alternately frightened and envious. Yet your mother is the one person who is ‘supposed’ to love you and protect you, no matter what. It took me a long time to understand how impacted I’d been not just by my biological father’s abandonment and my two stepfathers’ abuse but by my mother and how difficult it had been to always come second in her life to a man, to a bottle.” Rachel’s prolonged childhood trauma