Overview
- Summary
- Traces the author's surprise discovery that his late mother had had a sister who was sent away under mysterious circumstances and never mentioned by the family again, his efforts to research his long-lost aunt's story and whereabouts, and his struggles to understand the secrecy of her existence.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Hyperion, [2009]
©2009 - Locale
- United States
Michigan - Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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Spring 1995
Spring 2000
Looking for Mom
The Rosetta Stone
Unlocking the door
Missing pieces
Actually insane
Welcome to Eloise
I am family
Lost and found
Castles in the air
The old neighborhood
The cigar laborer
Invisible
One of the thousands
The ghosts of Radziwillow
Abandoned
Dad's secret
Uncontoured ills
Always the bridesmaid
Reinterpretation. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-386) and index.
Spring 1995 -- Spring 2000 -- Looking for Mom -- The Rosetta Stone -- Unlocking the door -- Missing pieces -- Actually insane -- Welcome to Eloise -- I am family -- Lost and found -- Castles in the air -- The old neighborhood -- The cigar laborer -- Invisible -- One of the thousands -- The ghosts of Radziwillow -- Abandoned -- Dad's secret -- Uncontoured ills -- Always the bridesmaid -- Reinterpretation.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781401322472
1401322476 - Physical Description
- 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Adult children of aging parents--Family relationships--United States--Case studies. Mothers and sons--United States--Case studies. Sisters--Family relationships--United States--Case studies. Inmates of institutions--Family relationships--Michigan--Case studies. Family secrets--Case studies. Case studies. Luxenberg, Steve--Family.
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