In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide
A psychiatrist’s haunting memoir of her mother’s suicide illuminates our understanding of family tragedy.
A psychiatrist’s haunting memoir of her mother’s suicide illuminates our understanding of family tragedy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780465022137 (0465022138)
Publish date: July 12th 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
I don't read many memoirs, especially family-oriented ones: I'm prone to flash judgments and over empathizing; I can shake off fiction that rattles me but nonfiction sticks a little more. Still, this Boston-based memoir attracted me so I started it with some apprehension.Very quickly, I saw how cou...