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The Love They Lost
Living with the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce
by Stephanie Staal
List Price: 13.95


Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Delta; Reprint (September 04 2001)
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Chapter 1: The Reluctant Heart
A couple of years ago, my mother went to the twenty-five-year reunion of her graduate school class, held on the very same university campus where she and my father first met. She tells me how, as she roamed through the reception, weaving among all those

Chapter 1: The Reluctant Heart
A couple of years ago, my mother went to the twenty-five-year reunion of her graduate school class, held on the very same university campus where she and my father first met. She tells me how, as she roamed through the reception, weaving among all those

Author Q&A
A Conversation with Stephanie Staal. Q: Why did you write THE LOVE THEY LOST? A: It started as a personal exploration. For years, I didn't talk about my parents' divorce with anyone ... when casual acquaintances asked about my family, I would often use



Book Description

Stephanie Staal's parents divorced when she was thirteen. But it wasn't until years later that she realized the devastating impact of her parents' divorce on her own search for love.

She sought help. There was none. So she wrote the book she was looking for: a personal history of, by, and for the first generation of divorce.

Drawing on extensive interviews with one hundred and twenty adult children of divorce, The Love They Lost gives voice to their struggle to reconcile the emotional blueprints their parents left them with the lives they want to build as adults.

Here we meet men and women from all walks of life who share painful common ground: They are all living with the legacy of their parents' divorce. What emerges, as they tell their compelling stories, are profound new insights that will resonate with anyone dealing with the wide-ranging consequences of divorce ... how abandonment and betrayal, both real and perceived, impact adult relationships and careers ... what happens when money becomes a substitute for love ... healing ways to move forward while living with the past.

Weaving reporting and memoir, storytelling and social observation, The Love They Lost is essential reading for every adult child of divorce who longs to make peace with the past and build a rewarding life - and for everyone who cares about the future of the American family.

About the Author

Stephanie StaalStephanie Staal

Stephanie Staal graduated from Barnard College in New York City with a degree in Anthropology and a minor in Political Science. Thne she attended Columbia University's Gradute School of Journalism, where The Love They Lost began as her master's thesis. Stephanie is now a freelance writer and lives in New York and Maryland with her husband John and dog Emma.

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