The UnthinkableWhen [my mother] struck, it was with the cumulative rage of 30 years of hurt. David Challen grew up in the perfect home with the model family. David Challen also grew up inside a house which concealed his father's manipulation and control. On a Saturday in 2010, his mother struck twenty blows to the back of her husband's head with a hammer after 35 years of abuse. She then turned off the stove she had been cooking his lunch on and washed the dirty