Edna's Gift (eBook)

How My Broken Sister Taught Me to Be Whole

Susan Rudnick (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
208 Seiten
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-63152-516-2 (ISBN)

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When they were young, Susan and Edna, children of Holocaust refugee parents, were inseparable; Edna was Susans first love and constant companion. But as they grew up and Ednas physical, and mental challenges altered the ways she could develop, a gulf formed between them. Susans life became even more complicated when, just short of her sixteenth birthday, she learned that shed been born without a uterus and would never menstruate or give birth to children. As she coped with this trauma, Edna continued loving her unconditionally, as she always had.In her adult years Edna lived a life of dignity in a spiritual community, becoming a model for how Susan could live hers. In her forties, Susan realized her dream of motherhood when she adopted a daughter. Throughout, Edna remained a teacher and loving presence in her sisters life.Encompassing Susan and Ednas lifelong, complex, intertwining relationship, Ednas Gift has a powerful message: life may be unpredictable, even traumaticbut if you remain open, strength and wisdom will come to you from surprising and unexpected sources.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2025
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Exceptional children memoir • Family relationship memoir • inspirational memoir • motherhood memoir • Motherhood through adoption • MRKH • Sibling memoir • Sibling with disabilities • Sisters book • special needs memoir
• ISBN-10: 1-63152-516-6 / 1631525166
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63152-516-2 / 9781631525162