Torn From the Inside Out

Description:

Narrative Domestic Violence Memoir Sara Niles was given away to aged relatives, at 3 1/2 years old; married and abusive man, and was forced to flee for her life with five small children, during a cold February thunderstorm in the year 1987. "I am the little girl who sat in the sand, waiting to be rescued for an ancient old man. I am Sara Niles, and this is my story" (From Torn From the Inside Out)

subjects: memoir,  domestic violence,  abuse,  true story,  Sara Niles,  social issues,  Marital violence,  Abused wives,  Women, biography

People: Robert Howell: born in 1883,  son of a Native American mother and father who had been a former slave. Sara's uncle who saved her from a childhood of neglect and abuse

Places: Little Rock,  AR

Times: 1957-1987