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Afraid of the Day: A Daughter's Journey

Afraid of the Day: A Daughter's Journey


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About the Book

Written from the vantage point of a daughter who bears witness to her mother's recurring bouts of clinical depression, this memoir makes a poignant pull at the heart and sticks to the bones. In words that have long dwelled in silence, Nancy Graham recounts her mother's roller coaster journey into the deep dark hell of the disorder, and what it was like to be forced along for the ride.The experience of depression is not an uncommon one, and the emotional and psychological havoc it wreaks upon all members of a family is frequently underestimated. Graham unravels and re-winds the tattered threads of the lives insidiously tangled when mental illness shadows a family. She writes with honesty and compassion, creating a large, clear canvas of family, society, and the medical tumbleweed that mishandled her mother's frequent forays into the unforgiving abyss of a major depressive disorder. Graham's book is about transcendence, creativity, and the complexities of mother-daughter love when the maternal bond is so intangibly severed. It is also about sexual coming of age and discovery. Mostly, it is about salvaging love and the triumph of the Spirit and the will of a girl, moving through childhood and puberty to adulthood, walking a ground that she defines with each step, and the bittersweet legacy of it all.

Table of Contents:
Eyes of the storm; Shock after shock; Under lock and key; A playmate for Nancy; Wolf in sheep's clothing; Behind the painted line; Shame of sickness; Between a hope and a prayer; Naming the nightmare; Not enough coloured pencils; All I want for Christmas; Beaches of Sauble; Road to self-destruction; Ten cent solution; Notes from the edge; Now or never; Walking wounded; Burning bridges; Disordered daughter; Meeting the mountain; Touching clouds; Too little too late; Seoul to soul; Running on empty; Shrink-wrapped puddles; Frozen moment; Father root: muted love; Brother root: castles in the sand; Daughter root: for better for worse; Waves against the rock; Layers of an onion skin; Mother root: constant craving; My mother, myself; Emergence; Gift of memory; The colour of joy.

About the Author :
Nancy Graham is a writer of fiction and non-fiction works, and is employed by the Toronto Public Library.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780889614130
  • Publisher: Women's Press of Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Women's Press of Canada
  • Height: 227 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 432 gr
  • ISBN-10: 088961413X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Daughter's Journey
  • Width: 152 mm


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