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Cargando... Her: A Memoir (edición 2013)por Christa Parravani
Información de la obraHer: A Memoir por Christa Parravani
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I'm not going to star this because I hope to come back to it someday. Beautifully written, but so unrelentingly sad that I couldn't go on. This raw memoir, a love letter to the author's twin, broke my heart. It took me much longer than usual to finish this book because the story drained me emotionally. After the death of a twin, the surviving sibling's chance of long term survival decreases dramatically. Christa Parravani was on the path to become another statistic after her twin, Cara, died of a drug overdose in her bathroom, but pulled herself out of the spiral of self-destructive behavior and found redemption through the writing process. Any writer can understand how putting pen to paper has the power to heal. This book made my heart ache but also renewed my faith in the power of words. Christa writes about growing up as an identical twin, and her special bond to her twin sister. But then, also, about her sister's rape, and descent into drug abuse and death. As she struggles to come to terms with Cara's death, she finds herself lost in a desire to become her deceased sister, and struggles with her own demons and drug use. It is easy, perhaps for the reader to ask, why does she do this?, or why is she making these mistakes? But perhaps we can never know what it is like unless we are a twin, or lose a sibling, especially an identical twin. Christa does eventually come out on the other side, but the story of her journey is a compelling one. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. When Christa Parravani's twin sister is raped, she changes from a shining star with a bright future to a darkly addicted individual. This is Parravani's account of what transpired with her sister (including bits from her twins own writing), including the rape and subsequent abuse that led to her death. Powerful, moving, and tragic... but written in a way that doesn't seem like the author is parading her tragedy around for attention.sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, shared a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond friendship. Raised up from poverty by a determined single mother, the gifted and beautiful twins sheltered each other from family violence and loss by inventing a haven of playfulness and creativity between themselves. They went on to earn scholarships at a prestigious college, to careers as artists (a photographer and a writer), and to exuberant young marriages. But when Cara fell victim to a rape, she veered into depression, drugs, and a shocking early death. Studies have shown that when an identical twin dies, regardless of the cause, the surviving twin's life is at risk. First, Christa fought to stop her sister's downward spiral; then, she was struggling to keep herself alive. The act of creating this heart-wrenching text helped to transform her into a twin able to live on her own.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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