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[close] How well can any child really know their parents? By the time she reached adulthood, both of Anya Yurchyshyn's parents were dead. Her distant and abusive father was killed in a car accident halfway around the world when she was sixteen, Her mother, after long years of nonfunctioning alcoholism,finally succeeded in drinking herself to death by age 64.
But in cleaning out her mother's house, Yurchyshyn makes a discovery that changes everything she thought she knew about her parents, and begins a search across the country, and the world to find a larger truth about her parents' lives, and ultimately, her own. A well-written and compassionate memoir, that reminds us that our relationship with loved ones continues even after they are no longer with us. ]