With an inspired blend of life experience, journalistic acumen, and research training, DeVita-Raeburn draws on interviews of more than two hundred survivors to render a powerful portrait of the range of conditions and emotions, from withdrawal to guilt to rage, that attend such loss. Finding little in professional literature, she realizes that those who suffer are the experts. And in the end, it is DeVita-Raeburn and her experts who present a larger, more complex understanding of the sibling bond, the lifelong impact of the severing of that bond, and the tools needed to heal and move forward. The Empty Room is a fascinating literary hybrid in which Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn seamlessly fuses deeply affecting remembrance with a pragmatic, lucidly written exploration of the healing journey.
Record details
ISBN:0743201515
Physical Description:print 229 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher:New York : Scribner, c2004.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226).
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Frozen -- 2. Ambiguous loss -- 3. Disenfranchised grief -- 4. Claiming the story -- 5. Re-forming an identity -- 6. Carrying -- 7. Travels in Twinland -- 8. Return.