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Chargement... Your Father has Something to Tell You: What kind of shadow does a family secret cast over the child? (édition 2021)par Dave Riese (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreYour Father has Something to Tell You: What kind of shadow does a family secret cast over the child? par Dave Riese
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Mark Aherne is a middle-aged, married man living in Chicago. He's estranged from his parents in Boston, his father having bullied and belittled him throughout his childhood.One Sunday he receives a desperate phone call from his sister who has been caring for their parents for many years. She needs help; his parents are sick and have started drinking again. Mark soon finds himself back with his sister dealing with their parents' loss of independence.As he cares for his parents, he remembers the past when he dealt with his father's emotional effect on him and the family. His memories include many childhood events that filled him with guilt and a sense of separation.As he slowly comes to understand his family's dysfunction, he discovers secrets in his parents' lives that led to their own unhappiness. With his mother's dementia and his father's stubborn isolation, Mark fears his own ageing as he learns to lay to rest the experiences of his childhood.Mark Aherne is a middle-aged, married man living in Chicago. He's estranged from his parents in Boston, his father having bullied and belittled him throughout his childhood.One Sunday he receives a desperate phone call from his sister who has been caring for their parents for many years. She needs help; his parents are sick and have started drinking again. Mark soon finds himself back with his sister dealing with their parents' loss of independence.As he cares for his parents, he remembers the past when he dealt with his father's emotional effect on him and the family. His memories include many childhood events that filled him with guilt and a sense of separation.As he slowly comes to understand his family's dysfunction, he discovers secrets in his parents' lives that led to their own unhappiness. With his mother's dementia and his father's stubborn isolation, Mark fears his own ageing as he learns to lay to rest the experiences of his childhood. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Mark and his sister move their parents from their childhood home to an apartment, which requires an enormous amount of work sorting through the physical memories of a home where they lived for 40 years. Mark and his wife eventually settle near Boston to be closer to his aging parents and for Mark to leave an apparently dead-end job for better employment opportunities. There are poignant end-of-life moments, and a connection for Mark with his father that resolves many unanswered questions. (