Letter to My Father
A Memoir
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Death & Dying, Health & Well Being, Self Help, Mental Health, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | G. Thomas Couser | ISBN: | 9780761869597 |
| Publisher: | Hamilton Books | Publication: | August 9, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Hamilton Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | G. Thomas Couser |
| ISBN: | 9780761869597 |
| Publisher: | Hamilton Books |
| Publication: | August 9, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Hamilton Books |
| Language: | English |
Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father’s life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve properly, much less to probe his father’s complicated history, Tom boxed the documents and stored them—for over thirty years. When he finally explored his father’s rich legacy, he achieved a belated reconciliation with a man he had not really known.
Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father’s life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve properly, much less to probe his father’s complicated history, Tom boxed the documents and stored them—for over thirty years. When he finally explored his father’s rich legacy, he achieved a belated reconciliation with a man he had not really known.
