The Surviving Child: Living With My Mother's Grief

The Surviving Child: Living With My Mother's Grief is a moving memoir written by Marilyn about a tragic accident that changed her family forever.

It begins in a mental hospital and reaches back to the dance hall where Marilyn's parents met in the aftermath of The Great Depression, the potato farm where tragedy took their oldest son, and the little house on Iona Street where Marilyn struggled to live with the her mother's mental illness.

It's the story of a little girl's loneliness and confusi...