Wednesday
December 17th 2014
Stitches by: David Small
Stitches by: David Small is a brutal memoir about the author, Small’s childhood in an abusive family, whose members included his father, an emotionally distant doctor who treated David’s sinus troubles with carcinogenic X-rays; his brother, a bully who forced sensitive David to look at their father’s R-Rated medical books; and his mother, a brittle, closeted lesbian prone to silent rages and devoid of any love for her sons. In the book, David learns a lot about his family and their secrets.
In the beginning of the story, Small starts off with when he was only 6 years old. As a kid he had a big imagination and would run around in the neighborhood and play. A lot of the time he would get yelled at by his grandmother because he was "ignorant" and he "needed to learn". He would run away from his grandmother and play in the neighborhood. Only to get called names such as "faggot, bastard, or queer" from the bullies. As he grew older he started to grow a sabaceous cyst, a strange infectious lump on his neck. As he would be put into surgery his parents would yell and abuse him for "wasting their time and money" and they said that he would pay. His parents disapproved of his fond for reading, so they burnt all of his favorite books and made him watch. The surgery leaves David with only one vocal chord and we wasn't able to talk. A couple years after his first dyagnosis he finds out that his parents have been keeping a secret; a secret that would change Davids life forever. David finds out that he had cancer and that his parents haven't told him all this time. As the book comes to an end, David starts finding out many secrets. He finds out his mother was a lesbian and that she had a sexual relationship with one of her co-workers. He then finds out that his grandmother has had the urge to kill her husband for over 20 years.
Overall, the story was great. I personally love memoirs and this one was probably one of the best I have ever read.
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