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In this seismically moving memoir The New York Times Book Review Editors Choice one woman asks a seemingly impossible question in the aftermath of her mothers suicide How do you mourn a loved one as you repair the injuries they inflicted
Laura Trujillo resurfaces from thedark subbasement of despairwith assurances for us all There is hope There is healing Always there is love This book will save livesConnie Schultz author of The Daughters of Erietown
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New Yorker
Laura Trujillo had been close to her mother for most of her adult life raising her four children within a few miles of their beloved grandmothers Phoenix home But just three months after moving her young family to Cincinnati for a new job Laura receives shocking news Her mother had taken her own lifeby jumping off a ledge into the Grand Canyon a place Laura knew her mother had always loved
Laura and her mother had shared a profound and special bond yet each had also kept from the other the deepest truths about their lives As an adult Laura finally broke her silence about the sexual abuse she had suffered as a teenager at the hands of her stepfathera secret Laura had buried to protect her mother After her mothers death Laura embarks on an emotional odyssey searching for clues that could explain the depressionintergenerational trauma and shared heartbreaks in her family When she returns to the Grand Canyon it becomes an oasis that nurtures Lauras search for redemption and peace As Laura wrestles with her feelings she forges a new path forward
Moving and intimate powerfully told Stepping Back from the Ledge is a remarkable exploration of the bond between a mother and daughter and of the hope that can come from facing the truth
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