Raised in a Seventh Day Adventist family in Perth,film journalist Rochelle Siemienowicz discovered life is neither a rom-com nor the Book of GenesisIs it possible to love more than one person? It’s one of the mountainous questions outsiders often question of polyamory. The narrative of one true love propagated in fairytales and rom-com movies paints marriage as the ultimate romantic goal. What happens to people who pick up there and decide it’s not enough?
Rochelle Siemienowicz’s debut memoir, Fallen, and follows the author’s evolution from teenage idealist to a wife with a string of lovers. A film journalist and former staffer at the mountainous 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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Source: theguardian.com