If your mom is dead, is she still your mom? At twenty-fiveānearly two decades after losing her mother to breast cancer as a little girlāan accident on a downtown street unleashes startling emotional reactions in Peg Conway, and this question starts to percolate. She comes to understand what sheās experiencing as long-buried childhood grief, and as she marries and becomes a mother herself, Pegās 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 motherās 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.
The Art of Reassembly: A Memoir of Early Mother Loss and Aftergrief
Verteller:
Elizabeth Cottle
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