Title: Behind the Woodpile: A Memoir
Author: Emily Rosenbaum (Late Night Books)
Price: FREE
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (5)
People with messed-up childhoods are supposed to be under bridges smoking crack pipes; Emily Rosenbaum is driving a minivan to Gymboree.

When Emily was two, her mother died. Her father remarried, giving his daughters a sadistic stepmother with a penchant for hurting small children.

Now, she’s an “adult survivor,” much to the surprise of the other moms at preschool drop-off.She gets a lot of, “I never would have guessed,” which is a polite way of…