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Book SynopsisValerie Bence’s latest poetry pamphlet is a testament to ordinary lives, and a meditation on grandmothers. Part memoir, part family history, Overlap is a series of vivid vignettes from the poet’s childhood, courtship, motherhood and grandmotherhood, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Bence’s grandmothers Winifred and Harriet are at the heart of this book. She reflects on their hardy, steadfast lives as she too becomes a grandmother, in very different times. Stranded from her family in the Covid-19 pandemic, the poet conjures up their ghosts, walks in their footsteps and – sometimes – feels herself become them.Trade Review‘That Bence had her first successes later in life has perhaps impacted how the writer deals with memory and displays perspicacity. Bence’s writing is always canny, attentive, and imbued with high emotion.’ Alan Parry, The Broken Spine.Table of ContentsFrench cricket at Grandma’s, circa 1960 ; Collusion ; The man with a hook for a hand ; Witch ; The changing nature of friendship ; Not as posh as I thought we were ; Unease ; Choosing a pen ; Observation ; The summer of ’72 ; Default ; Piano ; Overlap ; Eggs ; Before the fall ; On not being a twin ; Cocktails ; I must remind myself that this is a good thing ; A grandmother in isolation ; Red ; Press me in peat

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Book SynopsisAn "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O'Connor. A cross-genre collection that reads like a novel, this book is both a collection of oral history and a lyrical and moving biography that wrestles with the complexities of the South, including poverty, racism, and domestic violence. "Nickole Brown's unleashed love song to her grandmother is raucous and heart-rending, reflective and slap-yo-damn-knee hilarious, a heady meld of lyrical line and life lesson. Brown is blessed to be blood-linked to such a shrewd and singular soul, and the poet's mix of monologue, myth, and unbridled mayhem paints a picture of a proper Southern lady who is just-well, unforgettable." -Patricia Smith "In Fanny Says, Nickole Brown distills the whole of America into one woman: bawdy, loving, racist, battered, healed, and gorgeous with determination. Our country has no history that does not touch the South. Our divisions are our unions. Here, Brown unleashes a voice returned to teach us a lesson. Reader, fair warning: you can't hide from Fanny. You will be changed by this book." -Rebecca Gayle HowellTrade ReviewA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015 A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 A NewPages "Editor's Pick" for 2015 Berea College's 2015 Weatherford Award for Poetry "Brown's sprawling sophomore collection is a lyrical biography of and tribute to her wise and irreverent southern grandmother. Along with a memorable lesson in the use of the word 'flitter,' what'll stick most is this book's unknown 'word for all things left unbroken, a word for breakable yet unbroken thing." --NPR Books "In a voice that is both authentic and colloquial, Brown tells the story, without sentimentality or cliche, of her grandmother Fanny... It's rare to find a book of poems that reads like a well-plotted page-turner, each poem propelling the reader into the next, each poem filled with story and song. This is that book. VERDICT Bawdy and real, this volume will stay with readers long after Fanny has had her final say." --Library Journal, Starred Review "Brown's depiction of her cussing, pill-popping grandmother Fanny, who wears push-up brassieres along with starched, short-sleeved men's 'business' shirts, is poignant, funny, and utterly real. Fanny's tone and inflection come alive through the series of poems based on her actual words. And through Brown's vivid, honest, and surprisingly nonjudgmental reflections, we develop, page by page, a mental image of her grandmother in the mid-twentieth-century South and can't help but enjoy the process of getting to know Frances Lee Cox. While this collection honors Fanny's span of years on this planet and her impact on her granddaughter, it also showcases the writer's humor, insight, and poetic gifts." --Booklist "This is a commentary on the South as a whole... Fanny Says remains a tender character study above all else. I wouldn't be surprised to see a film adapted from this. It endures sentiment and challenges social notions. It is true to humanity and breathed with life." --NewPages "Nickole Brown has written an epic poem called Fanny Says... It is in essence one long poem--138 pages--chambered like a heart and pumping language like blood to every stanza throughout this single, vital organ. Though Brown has written these words down, the oracular qualities of her grandmother, Frances Lee Cox--her distinctive way of speaking, idioms and regionalisms, malapropisms and profanities all--manifests so entirely that the reader is not really reading but listening as this monumental, multi-generational narrative unfolds." --The Rumpus "Many of us find it difficult to tell our family stories--no surprise, as they are usually loaded. One of the accomplishments of Fanny Says is its skillful and unapologetic confrontation of the shamelessness of Brown's people--and sometimes ours... Here Brown is at her best--writing calamity with eloquence, speaking, in the same moment, Fanny's complications and the poet's claim on it. This book, like a grandmother's love, is not always pretty, but it pulls you in and gives you so much truth." --Oxford American Magazine "Brown blends descriptions of the immensely wise, brazen and sailor-mouthed Fanny with ruminations on both the power of memory and the Kentucky culture that surrounded them both. The editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson, the fabric of Brown's poems share threads of his deeply honest and personal reporting, but Fanny Says proves that she's a literary heavyweight in a class of her own." --BookPage "Fanny Says delights and dazzles at every turn. In these poems, Brown finds the space and time to explore her own family and the South as an imagined location. In the tradition of great lesbian writers such as Dorothy Allison, Fannie Flagg, June Arnold and Rita Mae Brown, Nickole Brown spins a yarn that is at once fantastical and believable, one that leaves us, as readers, yearning for more." --Lambda Literary "Reading Nickole Brown's new book of poems, Fanny Says, is like being introduced to someone you never want to let go, the kind of fierce, tender, acerbic, complicated woman who will snag you by your scruff and tell you what you don't want to hear, and--in the next breath--what you need to hear." --Gwarlingo "Nickole Brown first established herself as a major talent with her 2007 novel in poems, Sister, and Fanny Says marks a further development in Brown's exploration of what a poetry collection can be and do... This book explores Fanny in all her troubled humanity, and confronts domestic violence, racism, and poverty in the American South." --Tahoma Literary Review "The imagery is blunt, the dialect true, and what unfolds is a metaphoric hope chest, a series of living flashbacks through which Brown creates a poetic treatise on memory's workings... With subtle technique, Brown encourages the reader to take liberty with these crisp narratives and provokes us to imagine Fanny beyond the page." --Oxford American "Brown delivers poetic mastery with extraordinary craft and control of language, images, line and diction." --Lambda Literary "Like Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish or Sarah Blake's Mr. West, this book draws its energy from the personality of its main character/subject and the way the speaker engages with it. The main character of Fanny Says is likeable, foulmouthed, strange, immensely memorable, and perhaps most importantly, very funny. In memorializing Fanny, Nickole Brown has made her come alive." --Los Angeles Review "Brown's interest in Kentucky speech sounds, and the many speeds in her free verse -- from rapid fire to syrupy-slow -- fit the unfolding of Fanny's life...What would already be a neat set of "way-back stories/ hard as the lichen-green apples/ of Kentucky," told only in Nickole's or Fanny's voice, gets depth from the way that we hear both together: Brown neither whitewashes nor condescends, but shows us "how/ hard she worked/ to become/ who she was." --San Francisco Chronicle "Brown isn't a sentimentalist nor does she dismiss ambiguity for some muzzy unifying principle. What Fanny says and how she says it are paramount here...Richly conceived, Fanny Says is dense with material yet welcoming in its spirited shape-shifting." --Ron SlateTable of ContentsTable of ContentsFor Our Grandmothers IFuck Your Monthly Fanny Says She and Her Husband Had Their First Fight Fanny Linguistics: MalapropismsFanny Says She Spent It Pepsi Fanny Says Sometimes It's Worth the WhuppingGo Put on Your Face For My Grandmother's Teeth, Pulled When She Was Thirty-Six Fanny Says She Got Saved Fanny Linguistics: Nickole Fanny Says How to Make Potato SaladFanny Linguistics: SuperstitionThe DeadFanny Linguistics: Birdsong Fanny Says She Learned to Throw the First Stone Hettie Fanny Says How to Be a Lady IIClorox Fanny Says She Didn’t Use to Be Afraid Fanny Linguistics: Publix HieroglyphicsFanny Linguistics: Origins Crisco For My Grandmother's Feet, Swollen Again Fanny Says How to Tend Babies Fanny Says She Wanted To See Elvis EPOFanny Says at Twenty-three She Learned to Drive Dixie HighwayFanny Linguistics: How to Say What You Mean Pheno Fanny Says She Made Him Feel Better How To Dress Like Fanny Fanny Says I Need to Keep Warm IIIA Genealogy of The Word IVFanny Says She Knows How Little Time is LeftFor My Grandmother's Gallstones, Reconsidered Sweet Silver Fanny Says She Meets a Stripper in the ER Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit Fanny Says Again the Same Dream on Morphine Flitter Fanny Asks Me a Question Before I'd Even Ask Myself My Book, In Birds A Translation for the Spiritual Mediator Who May Speak for Me to Frances Lee Cox, Wherever She May Be To My Grandmother's Ghost, Flying with Me on a PlaneFanny Linguistics: ThaumatologyThe Family Says It Celebrates Independence An Invitation for My GrandmotherA Prayer for the Self-Made Man For My Grandmother's Perfume, Norell Fanny Says Goodbye Afterword

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Book SynopsisMothers describe falling in love with their babies and then, more slowly, learning to understand them. Children flourish when their mothers love and understand them.For over 20 years, Naomi Stadlen has listened to hundreds of mothers talking at her weekly discussion groups. In ''How Mothers Love'' she offers unique insights into how mothers and babies learn to communicate intimately with one another.When adults relate to one another, they are building on the foundations usually laid down by their mothers. ''How Mothers Love'' is a study of how mothers start to build those foundations and covers areas such as: how to create emotional ''space'' for your unborn child; how to maintain a close relationship with two or more children; the transformation into motherhood and your role as a mother in wider society.By sharing the experiences of other mothers, Naomi Stadlen offers reassurance and support to all new parents as they navigate the highs and lows of the early years with Trade ReviewEvery aspect of the mother-child relationship is explored in a thought-provoking, unjudgemental and ultimately reassuring way... * Junior *It would be hard to find a gentler, less judgemental book on mothering... * The Guardian *Easy to read and informative and will undoubtedly help many mothers... * Therapy Today *Insightful, reassuring and moving... * Pregnancy and Birth *This book...should be required reading...for any new mothers, to give perspective and postiive encouragement... * www.doublehelpingdoulas.co.uk *Both What Mothers Do and Stadler's latest book, How Mothers Love ought to be required reading for everyone, not just parents... * www.freeyourparenting.com *This book...takes the time to do justice to mothers. It does not preach to or advise them, but reflects their reality, the extraordinary ordinariness of their experience, in a way that is truly supportive of them and makes for empowering reading for mothers who may feel unappreciated by others or even unappreciative of themselves... * Breastfeeding Matters *

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Book Synopsis'For green grandparents everywhere and the young lives they touch.' —RICHARD LOUV, AUTHOR OF LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS Make leaf rubbings, blow jumbo bubbles, bake Moon Pizzas, create a firefly lantern. More than an activity book, CAMP GRANNY is an interactivity book, filled with 130 projects that connect grandparents and grandchildren through nature—in the kitchen, the garden, and the art room. Illustrated with evocative photographs and the author’s watercolors, CAMP GRANNY is a book about being adventurous, about being curious, about noticing and really seeing things—about instilling a lifelong sense of wonder. Please note: CAMP GRANNY was previously sold under the title Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars.

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Book Synopsis Thought-provoking and celebratory, 50 Things About My Father is a fill-in gift book of 50 prompts that help you capture all the things you love and appreciate about your father: his talents, his quirks, the memories you share, and more. If your father had superpowers, what would they be? What’s your favorite childhood memory of the two of you together? What has your dad accomplished that makes you proud? With a fresh illustration style by Alex Fine and deluxe production details like a grain-embossed, foil-stamped cover, ribbon markers, and a 4-color interior, this book is the perfect keepsake your father will enjoy for years to come.

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Book SynopsisIn How to Live Forever, social entrepreneur Marc Freedman argues that we don't need medical or scientific intervention to live forever. Instead of trying to be young, we can live forever (and save money) by being there for those who are young. Investing time with young people, mentoring, and passing wisdom from generation to generation, is truly living one's legacy. For the first time ever, we have more older people than young people, more people over 60 than under 20. In these new demographics we are more dependent than ever as societies on the flourishing of young people. Freedman will show how various innovations around the world are beginning to bring the generations together in ways that are mutually beneficial and suited to the realities of the 21st century. With insights from brain science, human development, and other research, he provides a blueprint for how societies can remain vital even as they age, and how to find great purpose and joy in the second half of life.

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 Best Atlantic Published Book AwardA National BestsellerBy the time the AIDS pandemic in Africa had reached its height in the early 2000s, millions of children had been orphaned. In the face of overwhelming loss, the grandmothers of Africa stepped in to hold families and communities together. Author Joanna Henry and photographer Alexis MacDonald visited eight African countries, interviewing and photographing hundreds of grandmothers (including Sarah Obama, Barack Obama's grandmother) who are reclaiming hope and resurrecting lives. The extraordinary images and stories of resourceful women fighting for a better future make Powered by Love an inspiration for everyone.Writes journalist-social activist Michele Landsberg, "We thought we knew what was happening in Africa when the AIDS pandemic raged across the continent, sweeping away 35 million lives. But we never knew it the way this book reveals it, in the shockingly intimate voices of the grandmothers who had to save the abandoned children when no one else was left alive. These voices will leap straight into your heart. Their unguarded faces, in portraits that glow with character, pain and humour, will captivate you."In 2006, the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched a campaign to engage Canadian grandmothers to support their African sisters. The Grandmothers Campaign, now a movement 10,000 strong, has raised over $25 million that has gone directly into the hands of African grandmothers and their grassroots organizations. Powered by Love joins this campaign by telling the story of these indomitable women and by directing all royalties from the sale of the book to African grandmothers raising children orphaned by AIDS.Trade Review"Powered by Love is humbling and devastating and galvanising. It is testament not only to the power of love but to the power of older women to change the world." * Understorey Magazine *"Powered by Love brings the collective power of love and unity to life in an otherwise bleak world…a must read." * The Brunswickan *"Powered by Love is the untold account of AIDS in Africa. And it’s an inspired glimpse into a social movement that has held hands, wiped tears, emboldened communities, provided hope and helped sustain a continent." * See Change Magazine *"The Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign is truly an inspiring and innovative movement, mobilizing a grandmother's fierce love for her family to challenge AIDS in Africa. Powered by Love shares heartfelt testimonies of women who transformed their loss into a powerful narrative." * Kofi Annan Foundation *"Powered by Love is a book that will both break your heart wide open and inspire you." -- T.J. Banks * A&U Magazine *

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Book SynopsisParenting tools that work from the New York Times bestselling author of The ADD Answer and the chief content advisor for the Dr. Phil showBestselling author Dr. Frank Lawlis has provided thousands of parents with vital information they needed to confront their children's challenges. With his newest book, he turns his attention and expertise to bridging the divides that can come between kids and their parents.Mending the Broken Bond leads parents through a 90-day program of practical steps and action plans toward building--or rebuilding--a positive, loving, and healthy bond with their children. Whether parents are faced with toddlers throwing temper tantrums, ten-year-olds who prefer videogames to talking, or rebellious teenagers, Dr. Lawlis presents sound solutions to repair relationships and regain a meaningful and lasting connection with their children.Dr. Frank Lawlis has been featured on Dr.

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Book SynopsisThis is a heartwarming memoir of introspection and observation, a humorous look into a family with the kind of enchanting moments and unflinching devotion, blended with mess and exhaustion, that we can all relate to. Jacks batteries are running out in his head. But only for songs. Through the inventive eyes of this little boy and his grandmother, we are given insight into their world together, with the fun and wonderment of two lives that are full of beautiful instants, floppy bits, and intimate scenes that make your heart stop. This is the story of Buba and Jack making whipped cream and making magic, a captivating chronicle permeated by the kind of intense love that can only be given by a grandmother.

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Book SynopsisMany people take on a new role in the care of their ageing parents - whether it be physical, mental, or financial. This book provides advice on: Understanding ageing: physical changes, emotional problems; Health: managing the world of geriatrics, drugs, hospitals, nursing homes; Caregiving: the emotional and physical toll, and more.

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Book SynopsisReady or not, you're a parent again - guidance and support for raising your grandchildren.

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Book SynopsisDescubre el camino para sanar a tu niña interior y despertar el poder de la mujer salvaje que hay en ti.Dentro de toda mujer habita una Niña Herida y una Mujer Salvaje. La niña refleja tu historia personal y las heridas de tu infancia, y domina tu presente con patrones inconscientes que te atan a relaciones de dependencia, a sentimientos de insuficiencia y a una vida que no te satisface. En lugar de reprimirlas, este libro te propone escuchar y sanar estas partes dañadas para liberar la Mujer Salvaje que hay en ti, tu esencia más libre y auténtica. Conectar con ella te permitirá vivir con plenitud, compasión y poder personal, y construir así la vida que deseas.En este libro, Sara Sarmiento, psicóloga general sanitaria y psicoanalista especializada en EMDR, trauma, apego y dependencia emocional, te acompaña en un camino de autocuidado y sanación en el aprenderás a:* Conocer tus heridas de la infancia para que dejen de dominarte desde tu inconsciente.* Maternar esas partes delicadas y vulnerables que habitan en ti.* Liberarte de las cadenas sociales y familiares que te atan a una vida insatisfactoria.* Construir tu vida plena y auténtica desde el Slow Living.* Conectar con el poder femenino ancestral que hay en ti.De Niña Herida a Mujer Salvaje es un lugar de paz y crecimiento para todas aquellas mujeres que sienten la necesidad de sanar sus heridas y despertar su poder salvaje y natural. Toma las riendas de tu vida para llegar a tu mejor propósito de vida: Ser Tú Misma.

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Book SynopsisAn innovative parenting approach empowering parents to trust their instincts and embrace uncertainty.Trade Review"Every parent wants to be a good parent. But there is complexity at every turn. Regina Pally, a veteran parent and gifted clinician, has written the book we've been waiting for. She brings us back to basics: nurturing the relationship, listening, wondering, and mindfully trusting our instincts. This beautifully written, hugely readable, straightforward, very smart, and so helpful book is grounded in the science of relationships and contemporary theories of parent and child development yet it reads as if she's having a conversation with us about everyday parenting, making sense of the journey and making it seem almost easy. For parents at all stages of child rearing, this book is truly a gift." -- Arietta Slade, Ph.D., Clinical Professor, Co-Director, Minding the Baby (R), Yale Child Study Center "Regina Pally has harnessed the power of her brilliant and caring mind with a synthesis of rigorous scientific findings and proven parenting approaches. This book is a highly readable guide to a parent's most important gift to their children, the ability to be present for who they are and to reflect on the inner mental lives that drive their behaviors. With accessible and practical suggestions for transforming your own reflective skills into daily interactions with your child and yourself, The Reflective Parent provides a powerful framework for supporting the healthy development of children of all ages." -- Daniel J. Siegel, MD, co-author of Parenting from the Inside Out and The Whole-Brain Child, Executive Director, Mindsight Institute "In an age when parental anxiety is at an all-time high, Dr. Pally's indispensable book supports parents and boosts their confidence. By teaching parents the skills to be reflective, Dr. Pally gives parents the greatest gift of all- the 'How To' of building a loving bond. Having a strong parent-child connection is at the heart of great parenting, and is the vehicle for raising kids who will thrive. This book is an extraordinary must- read guide for all parents aspiring to build a secure, healthy relationship with their child." -- Robin Berman, MD, Psychiatrist, Associate Professor, UCLA, author of Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child With Love and Limits

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Book SynopsisFrom babysitting schedules to dealing with stepchildren to long-distance grandparenting, this book covers everything that today's grandmas and grandpas need to know--in a warm, witty style that can help anyone feel relaxed and reassured in this new family role.Written by a grandmother who's authored fourteen previous books, Grandparenting ABCs discusses the newest developments in pregnancy and childbirth, makes suggestions for the most useful baby gifts and the best books, music, and toys for each stage of growth, explores the emotions that may come with this important life passage--and offers a road map through one of life's most joyful journeys, letting grandparents pass on a legacy of love to the newest generation.

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Book SynopsisWhen frustrated with an unresponsive child, a parent doesn’t declare, “You don’t love me.” Instead the parent asserts, “You are being disrespectful right now.” A parent needs to feel respected. When upset a child does not whine, “You don’t respect me.” Instead, a child pouts, “You don’t love me.” A child needs to feel loved.

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Book SynopsisAfter Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time. Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen, Eric was desperate to maintain the bonds he'd fought so hard to forge when his children were youngparticularly with his son, Jason, because he knew how difficult it was to face the challenge of becoming a man on one's own. Unfortunately, Eric learned the hard way that Quality Time doesn't always show up in Quantity Time.Facebook, television, phones, video games, school, jobs, friendsthey all got in the way of a real, meaningful father-son relationship. It was time to take action.As a SEAL, Eric learned to innovate and push boundaries, allowing him to function at levels beyond what was expected, comfortable, ordinary, and even imaginable, and he knew that as a father he

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Book SynopsisIf your mom is dead, is she still your mom? At twenty-five—nearly two decades after losing her mother to breast cancer as a little girl—an accident on a downtown street unleashes startling emotional reactions in Peg Conway, and this question starts to percolate. She comes to understand what she’s experiencing as long-buried childhood grief, and as she marries and becomes a mother herself, Peg’s intense feelings challenge her to offer herself compassion. Gradually she confronts how growing up surrounded by silence in a family that moved on from sorrow had caused her to suppress her mother’s memory for far too long. Ultimately, after excavating all the layers, Peg finds her mom again, and in the process discovers that truth, no matter how painful, heals.Trade Review2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner in Parenting/Family (Non-Fiction) 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Memoirs (Overcoming Adversity/Tragedy)“A brave and beautifully written memoir that shows anyone who lost a parent as a child how to move forward, even decades later. By sharing her moving search for healing and answers, Peg Conway gives the reader the best gift of all: wisdom.” —Michael Hainey, New York Times best-selling author of After Visiting Friends “Motherless daughters acquire a very specific wisdom at an early age, and Peg Conway knows this well. The Art of Reassembly is her poignant exploration of how the early loss of her mom reverberated throughout her life. In this beautifully crafted memoir, Conway takes readers on her journey of reconnection as we watch her ‘graft myself back to that original branch.’ She speaks for so many of us on these pages.” —Hope Edelman, New York Times best-selling author of Motherless Daughters “Peg Conway has written a memoir sure to resonate with those who experienced the death of a parent as a child. We are taken along on her adult journey as the ‘Inner Lost Girl’ confronts the grief of losing her mother at the age of seven. Many will recognize themselves as the ‘Responsible Girl’ and relate to the painful secondary losses that a death sets in motion. Peg brings to life the challenges and needs of grieving children and helps create much-needed awareness by sharing her own story so bravely.” —Vicky Ott, MA, LPCC-S; executive director of Fernside: A Center for Grieving Children “The Art of Reassembly teaches readers how to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of grief and have self-compassion along the way. If you have yearned to be seen and understood while in the depths of loss, read this beautifully written memoir, and you will feel lonely no longer.” —Nadine Kenney Johnstone, author of Of This Much I’m Sure and host of the Heart of the Storypodcast “From the opening paragraph, these pages hold readers in a gentle but firm grip. Peg Conway brings a striking blend of keen self-knowledge, profound empathy, and detective-like determination to her quest to piece together a more complete story of the reaches of unacknowledged grief. With unwavering honesty, Conway is unafraid to reveal her own humanness and how the ‘happy ending’ she grew up believing impacted her own development into adulthood. Deftly written and deeply insightful, this book invites readers on a journey of discovery and the healing power of self-compassion and truth. A stunning memoir.” —Jena Schwartz, writing coach and author of Why I Was Late for Our Meeting

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