Perspectives S35/Ep61 Jennie Miller Helderman's As the Sycamore Grows

Perspectives ends 2023 with a conversation with journalist and author Jennie Miller Helderman and her book, As the Sycamore Grows. Helderman originally had been assigned to write a magazine story about Ginger, an abuse survivor turned advocate. Her story yielded this book. Helderman takes us inside Ginger and Mike's harrowing tale. She talks with both the survivor, her abuser, other family members, friends and others who knew the couple. During the COVID-19 Pandemic the number of domestic abuse cases grew dramatically because of isolation is one of the main tools in an abuser's arsenal of weapons.