Underwater Daughter: A Memoir of Survival and Healing

Tuni's father began sexually abusing her when she was just four years old. Her mother, though aware of the abuse, was a silent witness-one either incapable or unwilling to intervene-and the abuse continued until Tuni was eleven. Three years later, when Tuni was fourteen, she was raped by an adult actor who was part of her cast in a professional theater production. These traumas would go on to shape much of her life.

Underwater Daughter follows how Tuni grappled with her relationship with her...