The Tender Land: A Family Love Story
10 best books like The Tender Land: A Family Love Story (Kathleen Finneran): A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness, Leaving the Hall Light On, The Possibility of Everything, The Invisible Storm, Faint Echoes Of Laughter (Empty Chairs, #2), Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir, The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse, Out of Sync, Two Hearts: An Adoptee's Journey Through Grief to Gratitude
A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
| Author | Victoria Costello |
| ISBN | 1616144661 |
Every family has secrets; only some secrets are lethal. In Victoria Costello's family mental illness had been given many names over at least four generations until this inherited conspiracy of silence finally endangered the youngest members of the family, her children.
In this riveting...
Leaving the Hall Light On
| Author | Madeline Sharples |
| ISBN | 0982579489 |
Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother's Memoir of Living with Her Son's Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. Madeline Sharples, author, poet and web journalist,...
| Author | Hope Edelman |
| ISBN | 0345506502 |
From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's search for a cure to her family's escalating troubles, and the leap of faith that took her on a journey to an exotic place and a new state of mind.
In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift,...
In this powerful memoir, Juanima divulges a plunge into a darkness few are able or willing to speak about: the terrifying, anxiety-driven world of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her family unaware, Juanima endures abuse and multiple rapes as a child, and at nineteen years of age decides to...
The shocking and spirited sequel to the much-praised Empty Chairs.
Life on the streets of Sydney was preferable to the nightmare Stacey Danson had survived in the hell that was home.
She hit the streets running at the age of eleven, and armed with a flick-knife and a fierce determination...
| Author | Linda Joy Myers |
| ISBN | 1938314026 |
At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas to watch the train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be only an occasional and troubled visitor. Linda Joy Myers's compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story...
| Author | Sue William Silverman |
Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper--or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps...
| Author | Jane Rowan |
| ISBN | 0981583024 |
In this brave and touching memoir, Jane Rowan shares her journey through the healing process of recovering from childhood sexual abuse; a past she knew nothing about until vague, foggy memories began invading her mind.
The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse opens with...
| Author | Belinda Nicoll |
| ISBN | 0985571306 |
In 2001, when a couple leaves South Africa for a stay abroad, they land at JFK International Airport on September 11th, unprepared for the sight of smoke billowing from the Manhattan skyline or the horror of a second plane exploding into the North Tower. Over the next ten years, as their host country confronts...
Linda Hoye was in her early twenties when she found herself parentless for the second time.
Adopted at five months of age, her heritage, medical history, and access to information about who she was or where she came from was sealed; it was as if she had never existed before being adopted. When...
| Author | Glenda Burgess |
| ISBN | 0767928598 |
“If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--for either of us. Truthfully, thought had little to do with it. Instinct did--the instinct to seize a sure and ebullient happiness or go down trying.”
Falling...
| Author | Marianne Curtis |
| ISBN | 1481063928 |
Author Marianne Curtis reveals her own personal, heart-wrenching, and, ultimately, inspiring story in Finding Gloria. Her past is laid bare in achingly honest detail, and her willingness to share her story with resonate with readers everywhere.
Pouring her own hardships out onto the page,...
| Author | Jeanne Safer |
| ISBN | 0385337566 |
What is it like to grow up with a sibling who is difficult or damaged?
Few bonds in our lives are as psychologically and emotionally significant as the ones we share with our sisters and brothers, although little has been written about this formative relationship. In this first-of-its-kind...
| Author | Shirley Hershey Showalter |
| ISBN | 0836196260 |
Little Shirley Hershey, named for a movie star, grew up with her nose pressed to the window of the glittering world. Three locations shaped her-a family farm, a country school, and Lititz Mennonite Church. She later became a college president and then a foundation executive, but the rosy-cheeked,...
| Author | Alyson Schafer |
| ISBN | 0470837438 |
Within each new mother lives an ideal that like the perfect house and husband is doomed to fall short. The "good mother myth" an ideal that parents create for themselves says psychotherapist and parent coach Alyson Sch fer, is the sort of widely held misconception that ultimately sabotages people's...
| Author | Alyse Myers |
| ISBN | 1416543058 |
After her mother's death, Alyse Myers covets only one thing: a wooden box that sits in the back of a closet. Its contents have been kept from her for her entire life. When she was thirteen years old her mother promised she could have the box, "when I'm dead. In fact, it'll be my present to you." Growing up in...
Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo
| Author | Daphne Uviller |
| ISBN | 0307238067 |
Only children don’t have to share bedrooms, toys, or the backseat of a car. They don’t have to share allowances, inheritances, or their parents’ attention. But when they get into trouble, they can’t just blame their imaginary friends. In Only Child, twenty-one acclaimed writers tell the...
| Author | Richard Rhodes |
| ISBN | 0688149480 |
Uniquely fusing practical advice on writing with his own insights into the craft, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes constructs beautiful prose about the issues would-be writers are most afraid to articulate: How do I dare write? Where do I begin? What do I do with this story I have to tell...
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
| Author | Erica Jong |
| ISBN | 1585424447 |
I discovered Jong's 1973 debut FEAR OF FLYING in my basement at 14, and it was the most thrilling overnight-read of my life. I spied it on a forgotten shelf on a private quest for a “sex book,” which was any book in which sex was implied, discussed, or— please, lord— described. The front cover featured...
Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0385267622 |
In her previous (excellent) book, THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD, Alice Miller still wrote from a psychoanalytic frame of reference. Now she has abandoned that model of therapy, believing that it only further instills in the client a repression of feeling memory.
Everyone who thinks that s/he...
| Author | Robin Warshaw |
| ISBN | 0060925728 |
Robin Warshaw clearly outlines date/acquaintance rape in this book, funded by the Center for Antisocial and Violent Behavior of the National Institute of Mental Health and executed under the banner of Ms. Magazine. While a bit dated (published first in 1988), this book captures the emergence of date/acquaintance...
Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers
| Author | Kate St. Vincent Vogl |
| ISBN | 0878393315 |
I expected to find an interesting and intelligent read from this author, but found so much more. There is precision and beauty and a twining of tales that will be meaningful to anyone who has been a mother or had a mother, adoptive or otherwise. Kate St. Vincent Vogl tells the story of coming to terms with...
Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs on the back-burner. After her mother dies of cancer, she goes on a spiritual journey looking for enlightenment and a purpose for her life. Eventually, she ends up as a volunteer in the relief effort following...
Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman s search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck s investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows the profound...
| Author | Daleen Berry |
| ISBN | 0615388604 |
This memoir follows the author’s harrowing journey from teen mom to award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author. At thirteen, Daleen Berry was raped. By sixteen, she was barefoot and pregnant. And at twenty-one she was a mother of four children, tumbling headlong into a dark...
