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The Resource Disaster Falls : a family story, Stéphane Gerson
Disaster Falls : a family story, Stéphane Gerson
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The item Disaster Falls : a family story, Stéphane Gerson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cuyahoga County Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item Disaster Falls : a family story, Stéphane Gerson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cuyahoga County Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
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- "A piercing and luminescent catalogue of a father's grief, parsing the shapes and distances of profound loss into a way forward for a family in crisis"--
- "A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away. On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stephane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stephane huddled in a tent with his wife, Alison, and their older son, Julian, trying to understand what seemed inconceivable. 'It's just the three of us now,' Alison said over the sounds of a light rain and, nearby, the rushing river. 'We cannot do it alone. We have to stick together.' Disaster Fallschronicles the aftermath of that day and their shared determination to stay true to Alison's resolution. At the heart of the book is Stephane's portrait of a marriage critically tested. Husband and wife grieve in radically different ways that threaten to isolate each of them in their post-Owen worlds. ('He feels so far,' Stephane says, when Alison shows him a selfie Owen had taken. 'He feels so close,' she says). With beautiful specificity, Stephane shows how they resist that isolation and reconfigure their marriage from within. As Stephane navigates his grief, the memoir expands to explore how society reacts to the death of a child. He depicts the 'good death' of his father, which enlarges Stephane's perspective on mortality. He excavates the history of the Green River--rife with hazards not mentioned in the rafting company's brochures. He explores how stories can both memorialize and obscure a person's life--and how they can rescue us. Disaster Falls is a powerful account of a life cleaved in two--raw, truthful, and unexpectedly consoling"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 258 pages
- Contents
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- 217
- Part I
- First Year
- 5
- Part II
- Place of the Dead
- 151
- Part III
- End Stories
- Isbn
- 9781101906699
- Label
- Disaster Falls : a family story
- Title
- Disaster Falls
- Title remainder
- a family story
- Statement of responsibility
- Stéphane Gerson
- Subject
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- Family crises -- United States
- Fathers and sons -- United States -- Biography
- Children -- United States -- Death
- Married people -- United States -- Biography
- Loss (Psychology)
- Drowning -- Utah | Green River
- Parental grief -- United States
- Gerson, Stéphane
- Gerson, Stéphane -- Marriage
- Gerson, Stéphane -- Family
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "A piercing and luminescent catalogue of a father's grief, parsing the shapes and distances of profound loss into a way forward for a family in crisis"--
- "A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away. On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stephane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stephane huddled in a tent with his wife, Alison, and their older son, Julian, trying to understand what seemed inconceivable. 'It's just the three of us now,' Alison said over the sounds of a light rain and, nearby, the rushing river. 'We cannot do it alone. We have to stick together.' Disaster Fallschronicles the aftermath of that day and their shared determination to stay true to Alison's resolution. At the heart of the book is Stephane's portrait of a marriage critically tested. Husband and wife grieve in radically different ways that threaten to isolate each of them in their post-Owen worlds. ('He feels so far,' Stephane says, when Alison shows him a selfie Owen had taken. 'He feels so close,' she says). With beautiful specificity, Stephane shows how they resist that isolation and reconfigure their marriage from within. As Stephane navigates his grief, the memoir expands to explore how society reacts to the death of a child. He depicts the 'good death' of his father, which enlarges Stephane's perspective on mortality. He excavates the history of the Green River--rife with hazards not mentioned in the rafting company's brochures. He explores how stories can both memorialize and obscure a person's life--and how they can rescue us. Disaster Falls is a powerful account of a life cleaved in two--raw, truthful, and unexpectedly consoling"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Label
- Disaster Falls : a family story, Stéphane Gerson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- 217
- Part I
- First Year
- 5
- Part II
- Place of the Dead
- 151
- Part III
- End Stories
- Control code
- sky2ocm84658105
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101906699
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016016306
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Label
- Disaster Falls : a family story, Stéphane Gerson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- 217
- Part I
- First Year
- 5
- Part II
- Place of the Dead
- 151
- Part III
- End Stories
- Control code
- sky2ocm84658105
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101906699
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016016306
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
Subject
- Autobiographies
- Children -- United States -- Death
- Drowning -- Utah | Green River
- Family crises -- United States
- Fathers and sons -- United States -- Biography
- Gerson, Stéphane
- Gerson, Stéphane -- Family
- Gerson, Stéphane -- Marriage
- Loss (Psychology)
- Married people -- United States -- Biography
- Parental grief -- United States
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