The Bearer of Family Secrets is the true story of Yovinda Larraz, a remarkable girl born into a highly dysfunctional family living in postwar Holland. Surviving childhood abandonment and abuse, Yovi gradually comes into her own as a rebellious teenager exploring Amsterdam's vibrant counterculture.
This honest and deeply revealing first-person account of Yovi's tragic-comic youth depicts her struggle to resolve the mixed messages, dark secrets and conflicting morals of her early caregivers and family members. Oma, Yovi's overbearing and controlling grandmother, her...