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"Janet Sternburg has found the perfect metaphor for the tragedy of pain and loss, the ultimate inevitabilities of life. Bill Moyers "A phantom limb is flesh become memory... Sternburg uses the phenomenon as a metaphor for the loss of our loved ones, who remain intimately with us even after theyre gone. Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Sternburg is] every one of us who has cared for aging parents... She has faced the crucial questions: What do we owe to our parents? What do we owe to ourselves?" The Orange County Register "Sternburg accomplishes in a phrase what usually takes pages, even books, to describe... [She] moves from resistance to profound love; her memoir honors the challenges of being a care-taker. The Jewish Week "A mosaic of understanding, reconciliation, and ultimately acceptance. The Bloomsbury Review "Sternburg is so skillful, so acute in her descriptions and so filled with a useful sense of the absurd that the painful becomes transformative. Jewish Exponent
"Phantom Limb" is a wise and courageous memoir that moves between past and present, chronicling an adult daughter's journey through the final years of her parents' lives. A story of discovering love through adversity as well as an inquiry into contemporary neurology and spiritual life, "Phantom Limb" is a moving meditation on the struggle to make peace with physical and emotional ghosts of the past. Janet Sternburg writes with such warmth and honesty that loss itself becomes luminous: 'This is the grace of the last years, the children coming to understand the contradictions in their parents, not to reconcile them but encompass them in a larger love.' Janet Sternburg is a widely published poet and essayist whose books include "The Writer on Her Work". A faculty member of the California Institute for the Arts, she is also a photographer whose work appears in private and museum collections.
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