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My dead parents : a memoir / Anya Yurchyshyn. by Yurchyshyn, Anya. Crown, 2018. Call #: 306.874 Y95m Subjects Yurchyshyn, Anya -- Family.   Parents -- Death -- Biography.   Parent and child -- Biography.   Daughters -- Biography.   Family secrets -- Biography.   Russian Americans -- Biography. ISBN:  9780553447040 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Summary:  "Anya Yurchyshyn grew up in a narrow townhouse in Boston, every corner filled with the souvenirs of her parents adventurous international travels. On their trips to Egypt, Italy, and Saudi Arabia, her mother, Anita, and her father, George, lived an entirely separate life from the one they led as the parents of Anya and her sister. The parents she knew were a brittle, manipulative alcoholic and a short-tempered disciplinarian: people she imagined had never been in love. When she was sixteen, Anya's father was killed in a car accident in Ukraine. At thirty-two, she became an orphan when her mother drank herself to death. As she was cleaning out her childhood home, she discovered a trove of old letters, photographs, and journals hidden in the debris of her mother's life. These lost documents told a very different story than the one she'd believed to be true - of a forbidden romance; of a loving marriage, and the loss of a child. Anya undertook an investigation, interviewing relatives and family friends, traveling to Wales and Ukraine, and delving deeply into her own difficult history in search of the truth, even uncovering the real circumstances of her father's death - not an accident, perhaps, but something more sinister. Anya interrogates her memories of her family and examines what it means to be our parents' children. What do we inherit, and what can we choose to leave behind? And can we learn to love our parents not as our parents, but simply as people? Journalist Anya Yurchyshyn received her MFA from Columbia University. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 306.874 Y95m Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.874 Y95m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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