“Discover the Untold Struggles and Triumphs of a Woman in a Man’s World: A Deep Dive into Lynn Lobban’s Memoir”
The casket ceremony, however, triggers a disturbing childhood memory — she flashes back to an incident when she and her sister found her mother drunk and lying in an unplugged basement freezer wearing a negligée, slurring her words, and telling them to leave her alone. It is a powerful image, one of many Lobban later shares, of childhood abuse and neglect.
To an outsider, it might have seemed Lobban lived a charmed life. Her father was a well-respected physician, her mother, a homemaker who dressed to the hilt. They lived in a lovely home in the suburbs of New Jersey, complete with household help. Yet, while the family may have been swimming in privilege, Lobban’s parents were drowning in drink. Her mom, bitter about the limits placed on her as a woman, took to the bottle and was most often cold and cruel to Lobban. Her father had seemed the warmer and more encouraging parent, yet his abuse took a horrible form. It wasn’t until late adulthood that Lobban was able to recall — and then begin to deal with — the trauma of his sexual abuse.
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