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Author Bucca, Dominic, 1978- author.

Title Faculty brat : a memoir of abuse / Dominic Bucca
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Author's Note -- Contents -- I: Marshall: The Once and Future Boy -- Orientation -- Preschool -- Simple Math -- Fractions -- Study Hall -- Faculty Brat -- Distilled -- The Dark Is Rising -- School Night -- American History -- Study Abroad -- Neosporin -- Sex ED -- Studio Art -- Flight of the Albatross -- Research Methods -- Cross Country -- Something Wicked this Way Comes -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Driver's ED -- Social Studies -- The Boy with the Purple Crayon -- Shame and Sensibilities -- Distance = Rate x Time
II: Miller: The Socratic Method -- Orientation -- Motive -- Lineage -- Civil Action -- Coffee Talk -- Deposition -- The Table -- Statutes -- Legacy -- Discovery -- Transmutation -- Cross-Examination -- Misnomers -- Closing Argument -- III: Bucca: The Myth of Sisyphus -- Orientation -- Home: May 2016 -- Climate Change -- First Violin -- Broken Windows -- Home: June 2016 -- Double Helix -- Asbestos -- Twist -- Home: July 2016 -- Public Broadcast -- Great Expectations -- The Grapes of Recession -- Real Estate -- Mother's Mythology -- Acknowledgments -- Series List
Summary "At the most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States, the children of educators are referred to as faculty brats. Though generally lacking the privilege of the institutions' wealthy students, the faculty brats who live in campus housing have access to the schools' extensive grounds and facilities. With few exceptions, though these children are frequently despised, they must be tolerated. Dominic Bucca's art teacher mother married his music teacher stepfather twice, and the young boy wondered if the union might be twice as strong as a result. Instead, he quickly discovered that the marriage was twice as flawed and growing worse with each passing year. When Dominic was nine years old, his stepfather began sexually abusing him in the faculty housing attached to the boys' dorm his parents oversaw. Years later, he found escape by reaching out to his real dad, and learned to split his life between two realities. For nearly twenty-five years, Dominic hid the secret of his stepfather's abuse from his mother and sisters. When he decided to tell, hoping to prevent his stepfather from continuing to teach young boys, Dominic discovered the limits of both his family and the legal system. Faculty Brat explores the foundations of an abusive home, the effects of childhood abuse on burgeoning sexuality, the ways in which class and privilege affect legal outcomes for victims, and how far the limits of family can be tested"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "Winner of the Iowa prize for literary nonfiction."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 06, 2020)
Subject Bucca, Dominic, 1978-
Sexually abused children -- United States -- Biography
Children of teachers -- United States -- Biography
Child sexual abuse -- United States -- Case studies
Child Abuse, Sexual
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Child sexual abuse
Children of teachers
Sexually abused children
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Biographies
Case studies
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019026583
ISBN 1609386868
9781609386863