The Orphaned Adult

This “wise and caring book” is a guide to understanding and coping with grief after the death of our parents ( Library Journal ). Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a prolonged illness, and whether we were close to or estranged from them, this passage proves inevitably more difficult than we thought it would be. From the recognition of our own mortality and sudden chi