Raised in a prominent Seventh Day Adventist family in Perth, the film journalist found out that life is neither a rom-com movie nor the Book of Genesis
Is it possible to love more than one person? It’s one of the big questions outsiders often ask of polyamory. The story of one true love propagated in fairytales and rom-com movies paints marriage as the ultimate romantic goal. What happens to people who get there and decide it’s not enough?
Rochelle Siemienowicz’s debut memoir, Fallen, follows the author’s evolution from teenage idealist to a wife with a string of lovers. A film journalist and former staffer at the Big Issue, Siemienowicz grew up in a prominent Seventh Day Adventist family in Perth. Her father wrote sermons and led prayers and her mother played piano and sang hymns for the congregation. It was a sheltered childhood; rock music was banned and Dolly magazines confiscated.
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