Always Too Soon

Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents

By Allison Gilbert; Christina Baker Kline
(Seal Press (CA), Paperback, 9781580051767, 279pp.)

Publication Date: December 2006

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook

Categories: Death, Grief, Bereavement, Death, Grief, Bereavement

"After losing her second parent in her mid-thirties, CNN producer Gilbert searched bookstores for accounts of other adult orphans. When she came up empty-handed, the seeds of this book were sown, as she began interviewing a wide variety of celebrities and regular people who lost parents to tragedies like the crash of TWA Flight 800, drunk driving, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Particularly evocative are the contributions from rapper/actor Ice-T, singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash, and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich. Included are selections by people who had difficult relationships with their parents, those who lost their parents as children, and some who candidly admit to having valued one parental relationship over the other. This often heart-wrenching collection of voices should provide the type of textual "support group" formerly absent from the literature of grief." — Library Journal