When Anke is told that nothing will stop her father, she knows that because of her role as the family furniture, she can use that as her power to change the family’s situation for the better. That is, until Anke witnesses a girl with whom she is friendly come under the power of her father’s abuse. Her father is an abuser and because of the fear that her family has in furthering his anger, they do not report him nor speak about the terror he causes.
Anke is spared nearly all of this abuse because she is space taker in the family, and that is all - she is, as the title states, furniture in the family. Thalia Chaltas in Because I Am Furniture is successful, though, in her story about an abusive father.īecause I Am Furniture is told in verse and follows Anke as she witnesses the physical, mental, verbal, and sexual abuse of her brother, mother, sister, and friend. It’s tough to find a book that takes on a challenging issue relevant to teens and manages to twist it from what could be a trite retelling to a new, imaginative, and fresh take.
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