Anya Yurchyshyn
Teoksen My Dead Parents: A Memoir tekijä
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In life, her parents were a mystery, their home filled with items from countries around the world in which they had visited. But together they fought constantly and Anya could never understand why they were together in the first place. As she goes through each room, each drawer, each closet, more pieces of who George and Anita are revealed. A couple who, at one time, loved each other deeply, who suffered terribly the loss of a son before Anya was born, and who died alone.
Anya's story is beautifully written and makes one mindful of the fact that our parents are individual people too....that they make mistakes, they love, the hurt and they try in the only ways that they know how. The journey begun in her mother's home leads Anya to explore further her family's history in Wales and the Ukraine, creating connections that she didn't even know existed. And learning that her father's death may have been no accident.
Her story is touching and delineates the connection between everyone's past and present as our parents' children.… (lisätietoja)