Ten Minutes from Home
A Memoir
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Ten Minutes from Home is the poignant account of how a suburban New Jersey family struggles to come together after being shattered by tragedy.
In this searing, sparely written, and surprisingly wry memoir, Beth Greenfield shares what happens in 1982 when, as a twelve-year-old, she survives a drunk-driving accident that kills her younger brother Adam and best friend Kristin. As the benign concerns of adolescence are replaced by crushing guilt and grief, Beth searches for hope and support in some likely and not-so-likely places (General Hospital, a kindly rabbi, the bottom of a keg), eventually discovering that while life is fragile, love doesn’t have to be.
Ten Minutes from Home exquisitely captures both the heartache of lost innocence and the solace of strength and survival.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Greenfield and her parents were driving home from her ballet recital when a drunk driver slammed into their car, killing her little brother, Adam, and her best friend, Kristin. Only 12 at the time, Greenfield's life as she knew it-idyllic suburban days of ballet lessons and swimming pools-was over, replaced by years of grief, guilt, intense anger, isolation, and struggles with bulimia and alcoholism. Those years also see her find purpose and success as a writer in New York, a loving partner, Kiki, and an adopted daughter. A journalist and editor, Greenfield produces a commanding memoir of healing and recovery that doesn't shrink from the suffering she and her family endured, or the often painful details that accompany the process of moving forward, while simultaneously embracing the human capacity for vulnerability and joy. Anyone who has lost loved ones too soon will find Greenfield's brutal honesty cathartic, and her hard-won progress inspiring.
