September 7, 2025
Dear Sister by Michelle Horton
After enduring years of domestic abuse, Nikki Addimondo shot and killed her abusive partner. She was arrested and eventually convicted of murder. Her family faced a nightmare that the average middle class family never expects to confront: learning to navigate the legal system, filing for custody of Nikki's children with child protective services, reckoning with the aftereffects of childhood trauma, and the difficulty of proving that Nikki was a victim. It made me wonder what happens to the victims who don't have a sister and a support system to fight for them. Readers should be warned that there are violent descriptions of domestic abuse, including repeated beatings, burnings, rape and sexual abuse, and death threats from Nikki's scum of a partner, Christopher Grover.
Nikki Addimondo, Michelle's sister
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