Losing Your Parents, Finding Yourself: The Defining Turning Point of Adult Life

An eloquent book that explores the impact on one's life of losing a parent as an adult, and the effect it has on families, careers, and friendships—now in paperback.

Losing a parent is an event that happens, sooner or later, to nearly everyone. Yet seldom has the impact of parental death on the identities of adult offspring been examined. This book fills that gap. Backed by her original study and filled with compelling case histories, Secunda's book explores what happens to men and women whe...