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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Gerson, Stéphane.     Subjects     Gerson, Stéphane.     Gerson, Stéphane -- Family.     Gerson, Stéphane -- Marriage.     Drowning -- Utah -- Green River.     Children -- Death -- Biography     Fathers and sons -- Biography.     Married people -- Biography.     Family crises -- Biography.     Parental grief -- Biography.     Loss (Psychology).     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gerson, Stéphane.       by title:      Disaster Falls : a f...       by call number:      306.85 G382d     Search the Web     Gerson, Stéphane.     Gerson, Stéphane.     Gerson, Stéphane -- Family.     Gerson, Stéphane -- Marriage.     Drowning -- Utah -- Green River.     Children -- Death -- Biography     Fathers and sons -- Biography.     Married people -- Biography.     Family crises -- Biography.     Parental grief -- Biography.     Loss (Psychology).       MARC Display

Disaster Falls : a family story / Stéphane Gerson. by Gerson, Stéphane. Crown, [2017] Call #: 306.85 G382d Subjects Gerson, Stéphane.   Gerson, Stéphane -- Family.   Gerson, Stéphane -- Marriage.   Drowning -- Utah -- Green River.   Children -- Death -- Biography   Fathers and sons -- Biography.   Married people -- Biography.   Family crises -- Biography.   Parental grief -- Biography.   Loss (Psychology). ISBN:  9781101906699 (hc.) 9781101906712 (pbk.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  258 pages ; 22 cm. Summary:  "A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away. On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stephane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stephane huddled in a tent with his wife, Alison, and their older son, Julian, trying to understand what seemed inconceivable. 'It's just the three of us now,' Alison said over the sounds of a light rain and, nearby, the rushing river. 'We cannot do it alone. We have to stick together.' Disaster Falls chronicles the aftermath of that day and their shared determination to stay true to Alison's resolution. At the heart of the book is Stephane's portrait of a marriage critically tested. Husband and wife grieve in radically different ways that threaten to isolate each of them in their post-Owen worlds. With beautiful specificity, Stephane shows how they resist that isolation and reconfigure their marriage from within. As Stephane navigates his grief, the memoir expands to explore how society reacts to the death of a child. He depicts the 'good death' of his father, which enlarges Stephane's perspective on mortality. He excavates the history of the Green River--rife with hazards not mentioned in the rafting company's brochures. He explores how stories can both memorialize and obscure a person's life--and how they can rescue us. Disaster Falls is a powerful account of a life cleaved in two--raw, truthful, and unexpectedly consoling. Stéphane Gerson is a cultural historian and a professor of French studies at New York University. Visit his website at DisasterFalls.com"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.85 G382d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.85 G382d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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