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"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together" "Commonwealth is the story of two broken families and the paths their lives take over the course of 40 years, through love and marriage, death and divorce, and a dark secret from childhood that lies underneath it all"
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On a midsummer's night Paula lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years asleep beside her, her two teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all their lives. Recalling the years before and after her children were born, she begins a story which is both a glowing celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgement of the fear of loss, of the fragilities, illusions and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of who we are can rest. It is the year 1995. A revelation lies in store. Her children's future lies before them. The house holds a family's history and fate. As a millennium draws to its close, and as day draws nearer, Paula's intensely personal thoughts touch on all our tomorrows. Brilliantly distilling half a century into one suspenseful night, as tender in its tone as it is deep in its soundings, "Tomorrow" is a magical exploration of coupledom, parenthood and selfhood, and a unique meditation on the mystery of happiness.
Family secrets --- Twins
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Families, Black --- Cerebrovascular disease --- Family secrets --- Patients
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Family secrets in literature. --- French fiction --- Themes, motives. --- Zola, Émile, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) --- Family secrets --- Families --- History --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs
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"A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family-a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's unexplained death-occupies the heart of this novel. Camanchaca is a low fog pushing in from the sea, its moisture sustaining a near-barren landscape. Camanchaca is the discretion that makes a lifelong grief possible. Sometimes, the silences are what bind us. Diego Zúñiga (born 1987) is a Chilean author and journalist. He is the author of two novels and the recipient of the Juegos Literarios Gabriela Mistral and the Chilean National Book and Reading Council Award. He lives in Santiago de Chile. Megan McDowell's translations include books by Alejandro Zambra, Arturo Fontaine, Lina Meruane, and Mariana Enriquez, and have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Tin House, and McSweeney's, among others. She lives in Santiago, Chile"--
Mothers and sons --- Absentee fathers --- Broken homes --- Family secrets --- Grief --- Chile
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Hiver 2011. Deux petites filles se noient dans la Meuse. La plus jeune est tombée à l'eau et sa soeur, qui pourtant ne savait pas nager, a tenté de la sauver. Quelques jours plus tard, un pompier de Liège perd la vie en cherchant les corps.Liège, le 25 janvier 2012, 11 heures du soir. En pleine tempête de neige, Jordan Nowak, loueur de pianos, aborde le pont-barrage de l'île Monsin. Dans ses phares, soudain, une silhouette penchée sur le parapet. Jordan découvre une jeune femme hagarde qu'il emmène à son hôtel. Là, Éva lui confie qu'elle allait se jeter à l'eau. Le lendemain matin, elle s'est volatilisée.Que s'est-il passé ? Quel est le lien entre le fait divers terrible de l'hiver 2011 et cette disparition mystérieuse ?Chargé de l'enquête, le jeune inspecteur Lipsky y voit l'occasion rêvée de faire avancer sa carrière. Mais sa précipitation et son inexpérience vont entraîner toutes les personnes impliquées dans un tourbillon dévastateur révélant, comme toujours chez Armel Job, la vérité de l'âme derrière ce que chacun croit être et donne à voir.Impossible de lâcher ce thriller psychologique haletant qui nous emmène jusqu'à une question essentielle : qu'est-ce qui donne du sens à une vie ?
Missing persons --- Police --- Family secrets --- Drowning --- Accidents --- Asphyxia --- Death --- Violent deaths --- Cops --- Gendarmes --- Law enforcement officers --- Officers, Law enforcement --- Officers, Police --- Police forces --- Police officers --- Police service --- Policemen --- Policing --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal justice personnel --- Peace officers --- Public safety --- Security systems --- Persons --- Investigation --- Causes --- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Droit pénal. --- Infractions contre la propriété. --- Criminal law --- Offenses against property --- Confidential communications --- Secrecy --- Prisoners --- White collar crimes --- Family secrets --- Decriminalization --- Drug legalization --- Droit pénal --- Infractions contre la propriété --- Secret professionnel --- Secret --- Prisonniers --- Crimes en col blanc --- Secrets de famille --- Décriminalisation --- Drogues --- Banques --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Banking --- Droit --- Légalisation --- Droit pénal --- Infractions contre la propriété
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The articles in this Special Issue of Genealogy titled “Focus of Family Historians: How Ancestor Research Affects Self-Understanding and Well-Being” cover topics including the psychosocial motivations that impel family history research, its therapeutic and healing aspects, and the emotional outcomes of dealing with unexpected findings. Broader issues, such as the ubiquity of ancestral acknowledgement and veneration throughout history and its links with religion are also explored. Papers include scholarly interpretations of case-based material, empirical research, and interpretive literature reviews emanating from a wide range of social science disciplines.
Humanities --- Social interaction --- family history --- psychology --- ancestry --- identity construction --- family tree --- war trauma --- attachment --- identity --- immigration --- forgetting --- emotional geography --- context --- environments --- homelands --- heritage --- genealogical motivation --- family history and identity --- family history and altruism --- family history and curiosity --- secular rituals --- post-religious --- sacred stories --- pilgrimage --- family ritual --- ceremony --- historical consciousness --- family history research --- family historians --- temporal orientation --- case study --- adoption --- late-discovery --- family secrets --- shock and losses --- historical trauma --- traumatic reenactment --- psychoanalysis --- infant attachment --- stress biology --- Adverse Childhood Experiences --- genealogy --- depression --- trauma --- prolonged grief disorder --- adverse childhood experiences --- alcoholic --- alcohol use disorder --- bereavement --- biological identity --- family identity --- DNA testing --- thematic analysis --- biogeographic ancestry --- archaeology --- bereavement studies --- continuing bonds --- problematic stuff --- ancestors --- personhood
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