Dave Davies

One of the most troubling stories involves your sister, Cookie, who is 13 years older than you.

Is that right?

She became a teenage mom, had daughters, had a couple of marriages, and then eventually married a third husband recommended by her pastor in a fundamentalist church.

And you write that in 1983, Cookie's third husband sexually abused Cookie's daughter, Liza, her daughter from a previous marriage.

How does she – what does she do, Cookie?

So your family still had a relationship with Cookie.

I mean, your sister, your mom's daughter, who had disbelieved her own daughter and chosen to believe her husband and pastor about the abuse.

What kind of relationship did you and your family have with Cookie after that?

That's what I want to talk about.

For the book, you wanted to interview Cookie about this, and she agreed to talk to you on the record, on tape.

Tell us about that conversation.

But when you talk to her, I mean...

You talked about the abuse of her daughter by her husband, who she was still married to and living with.

And then later, when you were putting the book together, you honored a promise you had made to give her a chance to respond to what you'd written.

So in a phone call, you read to her some of what you had written about the incident, about the abuse of Liza, her daughter, by her husband.

How did she react?

But, you know, I'm interested in knowing when in the initial interview for the book and then in the subsequent conversation and text exchange, did she say she didn't believe Liza?

She didn't believe that her daughter had been abused?

And her husband is still alive?

Yep.