Orphans

by Joan Cusack Handler · 2016

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In Orphans, a verse memoir, poet psychologist Joan Cusack Handler explores our most primitive and ambivalent relationships those with aging parents meanwhile confronting her own mortality. In a life lesson we re often unprepared for, Handler presents the reversal of roles and the eruption of unresolved conflicts that persist from childhood."

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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griefgriefMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 184 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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