The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age - Hardcover

DeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth

 
9780743201513: The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0743201515 ISBN 13: 9780743201513
Verlag: Scribner, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The younger sister of a boy who died in his teens of a rare autoimmune disease describes the loving bond they shared and draws on interviews with more than two hundred sibling survivors to consider the complex emotional impact of losing a brother or sister. 35,000 first printing.

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The younger sister of a boy who died in his teens of a rare autoimmune disease describes the loving bond they shared and draws on interviews with more than two hundred sibling survivors to consider the complex emotional impact of losing a brother or sister. 35,000 first printing.

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Ted is Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn's older brother, best friend, and the "ringmaster of her days". On a September morning when she is six, she wakes up and Ted is gone. Her parents explain that he went to the hospital for a while. "A while" turns out to be eight years in a plastic bubble, where he dies of a rare autoimmune disease at age seventeen. The Empty Room is DeVita-Raeburn's unflinching, often haunting recollection of life with Ted, woven into a larger exploration of the enormous - and often unacknowledged - impact of a sister's or brother's death on remaining siblings. With an inspired blend of life experience, journalistic acumen, and research training, DeVita-Raeburn draws on interviews of more than two hundred survivors to render a powerful portrait of the range of conditions and emotions, from withdrawal to guilt to rage, that attend such loss. Finding little in professional literature, she realizes that those who suffer are the experts. And in the end, it is DeVita-Raeburn and her experts who present a larger, more complex understanding of the sibling bond, the lifelong impact of the severing of that bond, and the tools needed to heal and move forward. The Empty Room is a fascinating literary hybrid in which Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn seamlessly fuses deeply affecting remembrance with a pragmatic, lucidly written exploration of the healing journey.

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Verlag
Scribner
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0743201515
ISBN 13 
9780743201513
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
229
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