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Search - Tales From The Family Crypt: When Aging Parents Die, Sibling Rivalry Lives

Tales From The Family Crypt When Aging Parents Die Sibling Rivalry Lives
Author: Deborah Carroll

This intriguing narrative nonfiction reads like a novel but presents the true story of how two dysfunctional families dealt with the death of four aging parents. With each death, the dysfunction deepens and the story twists and turns into unexpected territory. This book is a must read for anyone struggling to cope with dysfunctional family membe... more »rs. Readers will meet the three twisted sisters and one bizarre brother of the narrator and her husband. Anne, the oldest sister, is a control freak of the highest order. Obey her and she will be kind and generous. Fail to follow her orders and you are shunned. She destroys her extended family and never looks back. Linda is brilliant but shy and socially awkward, dealing with a lifelong envy of her younger sister, the story's narrator. Her acquiescence to her overbearing husband causes her to lose the little family she had. Nan is a bipolar, emotionally disturbed recovering drug addict. While she's never been able to take care of herself, she rises to new heights of competence as her desperation compels her to torture her mother emotionally during her dying days in order to insure her own future. Ted is a convicted felon whose low self esteem causes him to commit despicable acts while he desperately seeks to prove his mother loved him best. He's a narcissist without a moral compass or conscience. Their actions would be intriguing in fictional characters but they're real people doing unreal things to the people they are supposed to love. Both families wind up in court as the battle rages over money, love, and power. Readers will likely relate to much of the action as they recognize character traits they've seen in their own family members. Although the story is somewhat sad, it's written with humor and with love, Tales From the Family Crypt provides insight into the complex web of family relationships. Similar to The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, or to Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, or to Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, Tales From the Family Crypt leaves readers wondering how the survivors go on to lead happy lives. But they do. A great read for anyone with a family and particularly compelling for those dealing with the illness and death of aging parents. As families gather to cope with death, relationships both weak and strong are challenged in new ways. Tales From the Family Crypt offers strategies that readers will find quite helpful as they seek to attain happiness amidst the difficult and sad times.

ISBN-13: 9780692390078
ISBN-10: 0692390073
Publication Date: 2/11/2015
Pages: 240
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Publisher: HT Publications
Book Type: Paperback
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Parenting & Relationships >> Family Relationships >> Dysfunctional Families

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