What happens when a child experiences the trauma of sexual assault at a very young age" HUSH KEEP QUIET AND DON'T SAY ANYTHING is about a girl who survives some o the most agonizing moments of her life. She's innocent, young, and unaware why the circumstances of her life lead her to certain situations. She still pushes herself to see the good in life, and that life has so much more to offer. She's on a journey to recover and understand that if you forgive things can work out in the end.
Yolanda Gardner writes about a girl who is left at a bus station by her own biological mother. The girl is then raised by her paternal grandmother, who treats her as her own child. The grandmother had prayed and asked God for a daughter. She promised God that if He gave her a daughter, she will give her back to Him. This is when she is blessed with Yolanda. Growing up, the young girl befriends a girl the same age as her to fill the gap that was left by the absence of a sister. Her father marries her friend's mother and they become sisters.
Her life takes another turn when her father is released from prison and unleashes hell upon not only her but her friend too. Yolanda is elated that she will get to see her biological father again but she has no idea what he was capable of doing; willing to give up his daughter's innocence for personal gain. He begins to sexually assault her over and over again and if this wasn't enough, he allows others to sleep with her at his convenience. The man turns her life into a pit of eternal darkness. H threatens to take her from the only thing that is precious to her, which is her grandmother, whom she calls mother. Yolanda wants to speak out, but what will it cost her? Is it worth losing her mom or should she just endure the pain?
