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When Suzanne Sherman is four years old, her musically gifted thirty-year-old mother is struck with sudden-onset schizophrenia. In dual timelines - a primary narrative and the two weeks following her mother's suicide - the story traces Suzanne's life over the next fourteen years, as the family bears the ripple effects: divorce, her mother's suicide attempt, hospitalizations, Suzanne's sister's institutionalization, and her own choice to leave home at fourteen. As she grows older, Suzanne forms a friendship with her mother, sharing values, confidences, and a love of music and poetry. But only a year after she leaves Los Angeles for college, excited for her future, Suzanne receives the news that her mother has died by suicide. Nearly a decade after her mother's death, Suzanne asks her conflict-avoidant father to put a headstone on her mother's grave - a request that leads the family to face their sorrow together for the first time. After that, an extraordinary sign from her mother affirms the enduring presence of her love - and for the first time, grief gives way to acceptance. Living in the Long Shadow explores Sherman's journey of emotional survival, offering hope, insight, and a deepened compassion for those living with mental illness and those who love them.
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Suzanne Sherman is a memoir editor, coach, consultant, and author. Since 1996 she has taught memoir writing at colleges, online, and in workshops. She has also spoken at the California Writers Club, National Association of Memoir Writers, and Story Circle Network. Her other books are Lesbian and Gay Marriage: Private Commitments, Public Ceremonies (Temple University Press) and Girlhood in America: Personal Stories 1910–2010 (SZS Publishing). Suzanne lives in Northern California.
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