The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (916 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345394089 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 229 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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There are no melodramatic scenes, but Dew's story is breathtaking in its emotional detail and its explication of everyday life. Dew's prose, like her award-winning fiction, sparkles, and the insights she offers are not simply about sexuality but about the myths and secrets we all create to "protect," "defend," and ultimately distort what a family should--and can--be. In the absence of informed, nonjudgmental material, these books are important, but more personal stories are also important. What is daring, and surprising, about Dew's story is that the moral weight is not upon Stephen to deal with the confused reactions of his parents, but upon the parents to deal with their own mixed emotions
required reading for *everyone* This book, while it has its drawbacks (not all of us live in an area like Williamstown or in a college community, and there are different issues that come up when you're dealing with a family/people of color and of a different class), is necessary. I think that Dew is able to flesh out, in her own way, what it is to really deal with homosexuality and homophobia -- whether it is your. An experience of the heart Christopher M. MacNeil One of life's most painful (and unjustifiable) tragedies is a parent's total and absolute rejection of their gay or bisexual child solely on grounds of sexual orientation, and little of substantive value has been written on the psychological and social dynamics (many dysfunctional) that collide to rip a family soul to shreds. What literature does exist is usually in the form of some. "A Mother's Memoir of Her Son's Coming Out Process" according to Fairbanks Reader - Bonnie Brody. I am a clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist who works with a large clientele of gays and lesbians and their families. I have recommended this book to many of my clients.The author writes a personal and insightful memoir of how she and her family dealt with her son's coming out as a gay man. She appears to be honest and straight-forward about the complex and confl
"ASTONISHINGLY MOVINGThe Family Heart is a tough and challenging work, for it reminds us that empathy is a humble but radical virtue, if lived."--USA Today" I'm gay.' Every day, parents around the world hear those words from their children. It is a chilling moment, and it is described with a writer's eloquence and a mother's rage.Dew's intense imagination, combined with her ignorance of homosexuality, was as much a hindrance as a help, and it is to her credit that she has recorded the occasionally wacky assumptions and painful readjustments of her own odyssey with suc