The Memoir Will You Love Me By Cathy Glass

“Boom, boom, bang, pow!” Lucy’s mother’s body slammed against the washing machine. With tears rushing down Bonnie’s face, she begged her husband, Ivan, to stop. Bonnie thought: “Will Ivan try to harm Lucy? Is she safe? God please let her stop crying because I cannot stand to let her see me like this anymore”. The loud screeching of Lucy’s hollering startled the entire neighborhood. Moving from house to house, Lucy never received the proper nutrition nor attention she needed from her mother to accommodate for her personal needs. This lack of care caused Lucy to feel unloved and neglected by the woman she desperately needed the most.
The memoir “Will you love me?” by Cathy Glass adequately describes Lucy’s traumatic childhood. As the adoptive mom, Glass wrote this book to tell the true story about her adopted daughter. Lucy and her single mother (Bonnie) both endured extreme levels of domestic violence. During the course of her unstable relationships, Bonnie failed to acknowledge how this social environment was impacting her and Lucy’s overall health. With the help of many social workers they tried to give Bonnie the resources she needed in order to become a more suitable parent, but Bonnie was more comfortable with running away from her problems. Once Lucy was eight years old she was finally taken into permanent foster care. At age eleven, Cathy adopted Lucy. Lucy showed signs of being severely distressed after being moved from one foster home to another. Being socially withdrawn, refusing to eat and three years behind in her schooling, it was destined that the damage Lucy suffered was irreversible. Cathy and her two children: Adrian and Paula bonded with Lucy quickly, and comforted her in a way that no one else was ever able to. As the story unravels, Lucy and Cathy believe that it was always their fate to be mother and daughter; it just took time for them to discover one another.
Glass’s style was very informal and suits the intended audience by giving