HUSH! KEEP QUIET AND DON’T SAY ANYTHING

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What happens when a child experiences the trauma of sexual assault at a very young age? HUSH! KEEP QUIET AND DON’T SAY ANYTHING is about a girl who survived some of the most agonizing moments of her life. She was innocent, young, and unaware why the circumstances of her life lead her to certain situations and yet she battled and fought in her own ways to get out of that situation.

Yolanda Gardner, in the book, HUSH! KEEP QUIET AND DON’T SAY ANYTHING, writes her own story. She was abandoned by her biological mother when she was an infant of only 14 days old. The girl was raised by her paternal grandmother who she knew and referred to as a mother because she treated her as her own child. The grandmother had prayed and asked God for a daughter and promised God that if He gave her a daughter, she would give her back to him. That is when she was blessed with Yolanda. The young girl grew up wishing for sisters. To fill that gap, she befriended another girl around the same age as her neighbor, they eventually became sisters by marriage.

Her life took another turn when her father was released from prison and unleashed hell upon not only her but her friend too. Yolanda was elated at the idea of seeing her biological father again but little did she know that he was willing to give up his daughter’s innocence for personal gain. He began to sexually assault her over and over again and if this wasn’t enough, he allowed others to sleep with this little child at his convenience, turning her life into a pit of eternal darkness. He threatened to take her from the only person that was precious to her; grandmother.

Yolanda wanted to speak up, but what would it have cost her? Was it worth losing her grandmother or was enduring the pain the only option?

HUSH! KEEP QUIET AND DON’T SAY ANYTHING takes you on a journey of the unsaid. It stimulates the depths of aching in your heart and makes you realize that you are indeed, blessed. The young girl’s FAITH IN GOD strength, resistance, perseverance, and resilience will leave you shaken to the core. But at the same time, it will give you the push you need to heal and move forward in any situation; where forgiveness, strength, endurance, and speaking out are needed.