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| via Georgia Encyclopedia |
My summer reading list is never ending due to me continually buying new books before I've finished the ones I've already started. One of the books I'm trying to finish is "I'm Eve." At first the title didn't make sense, since the main character is named Chris -who suffers from multiple personality disorder- and none of her "personalities" take the name Eve either. Eve is actually the alias given to her by her therapist to protect her identity in the movies and books that follow her life. I picked this book up in a thrift store, hoping to expand my psychological background and had no idea that this book was the real life account of what is apparently a classic movie, "The Three Faces of Eve." She never received any attention for her story or any say in how it was told. Chris never even attended the movie premiere depicting her supposed life. This book is the manifestation of her struggle to set all the other records straight, the movie included, as to who she really was and what she went through. It reaffirms my belief that telling one's story is therapeutic, the only way to find peace through difficult circumstances is to say everything one feels and feel like one is truly being heard.
"The soft, intangible suffocation of indifference is immensely more brutal than the sharp clean cut of intentional hurt... leaving the frame weak, misshapen, and deformed; and the mind trapped in this ruined temple, itself shatters and splinters..." -I'm Eve, By Chris Costner Sizemore and Elen Pittillo
