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A Broken Heart Still Beats : After Your Child Dies
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A Broken Heart Still Beats : After Your Child Dies Paperback - 2000

by Semel, Mary, McCracken, Anne

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A remarkable collection of poetry, fiction, and essays compiled by a journalist and a social worker, both of whom have lost a child, this bestselling compilation gets to the heart of this hardest of trials.

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  • Title A Broken Heart Still Beats : After Your Child Dies
  • Author Semel, Mary, McCracken, Anne
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised ed.
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hazelden Publishing, Center City, Minn.
  • Date 2000-09-15
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2695190-6
  • ISBN 9781568385563 / 1568385560
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Grief, Loss (Psychology)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98028450
  • Dewey Decimal Code 155.937

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The forty-year-old woman squeezed the last suitcase into her car trunk, got into the driver's seat, and reached back to check her son's seat belt.

About the author

Anne McCracken, coauthor of A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies, is a former newspaper reporter and feature writer. She lives in Maryland and is now working on other nonfiction books. She lost her young son, Jake, in 1989.

Mary Semel is a clinical social worker and a bereaved mother. In 1991, her 16-year-old son, Alexander, was killed in a car accident. She turned to reading to assuage her grief, as did Anne McCracken. As they shared our literary discoveries, they decided to compile an anthology in the hope they could help others. It became A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies.
She currently has a private practice in which she does individual, couple, and group psychotherapy. Previously, she worked for 15 years in addictions treatment programs at two local hospitals. In one, she was responsible for conducting family therapy for families of alcoholics and drug addicts as well as individual and family counseling. Her husband, Peter, is an attorney in Baltimore, and daughter, Hilary, practices maritime law in New York.

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