Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry

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I’m glad Dr Berry wrote on a subject that few people want to think about. This book is a story about a 15 year old boy Noah who had unstoppable urges to touch very young girls. Noah was sent to be reformed. It was no help. Noah’s behavior destroyed his family and himself. At the end of the book, Noah convinced his mom Adrienne to assist him with suicide so his family could go back to their normal life. We also learn that his father Lucas used to be a child molester and didn’t get reformed either. Worse yet, his father might have molested both him and his younger sister, Katie, unbeknownst to others. None of the book was earth shattering to me - I was briefly friends with someone who admitted to be afflicted with this serious illness. He told me there is currently no cure and if he told others, he would be subjected to cruelty no doubt. The only thing he can do is to make sure he doesn’t act out on his urges - there is no way to stop those urges due to the limitation of medicine currently. Naturally, he’s chosen to not have children and is never around children. Until we as a society understand this illness and treat them as patients instead of subhuman, these people will continue living in their own version of hell and nothing good will come out of it.

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