Cursed by a Happy Childhood is a warm, funny, bighearted collection of one dad’s reminiscences about the kinds of lessons we all learn--sometimes the hard way

Filled with vignettes of youth and growing up and the lessons of life, a father shares his sometimes humorous, sometimes profound observations on the experience

For fifty-seven years, she kept it a secret. As a child, Christine quickly learned that no one should ever know about her mother's mental illness and obscene be

The Past?Her innocence betrayed, her body battered, her life destroyed, five-year-old Lisette lay dying. But hers was a will of uncommon strength for one so you

Elissa Schappell, “a diva of the encapsulating phrase, capable of conveying a Pandora’s box of feeling in a single line” (The New York Times Book Review)