The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age

A groundbreaking literary hybrid that seamlessly fuses deeply affecting remembrance with a pragmatic, lucidly written exploration of the healing journey after losing a sibling.

Ted is Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn’s older brother, best friend, and the “ringmaster of her days.” On a September morning when she is six, she wakes up and Ted is gone. Her parents explain that he went to the hospital for a while. “A while” turns out to be eight years in a plastic bubble, where he dies of a rare autoimmu...