Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss

by Eileen Vorbach Collins

Overview

When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bereaved parents who understand her pain on a level others cannot. No one in the group places a time limit on this grief. As the years pass, Eileen finds ways to honor the memories. She even learns to laugh again.

In Love in the Archives, a collection of linked narrative essays incorporating themes of surviving suicide loss, Judaism, interfaith marriage, and mental illness, Eileen walks us through those difficult years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781627204910
Publisher:	Loyola College/Apprentice House
Publication date:	11/07/2023
Pages:	252
Sales rank:	803,044
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Eileen Vorbach Collins' award-winning essays have been widely published. A Baltimore native, she holds a degree in nursing from the University of Maryland and a masters in pastoral care from Loyola. Eileen began writing as a way to process her grief after her daughter's suicide. Her essays uniquely fuse pathos with joy and everyday subjects with the big questions, while holding space for humor. Eileen lives in North Carolina with her husband, Hugh, and Sugar, possibly the world's oldest living Labrador.