Love in the Archives
Book description
Winner of a 2022 Gold Royal Palm Award- Florida Writers Association
Winner of the 2023 Sarton Women's Book Award for Memoir
Winner of 2024 Pencraft Award - Literary Excellence
Finalist 2023 Foreword Indies -Grief/Grieving
When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bereaved…
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Why read it?
2 authors picked Love in the Archives as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I can't imagine a topic as sensitive as suicide loss being delivered more tenderly than in this book. It broke my heart and punched me in the gut and made me laugh. Only a brilliantly skillful author can pull that off. Vorbach collins did.
Eileen Vorbach Collins has a rare gift. Few writers are able to evoke the visceral grief of the suicide of a 15-year-old daughter, the most tragic and gut-wrenching of losses, while also leaving room for hope and even humor. In each essay she finds new angles into the truth of her experience; in every case, love is the underpinning that carries her--and us--through to a satisfying and genuine close, though of course her story has no end. Themes including the natural world and interfaith marriage round out these stories and leave us with a reading journey we're grateful to have…