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  • The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents by Alexander Levy book cover
  • The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents by Alexander Levy book cover
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The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents

by Alexander Levy

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Grief and change after a parent’s death

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    Praised by Library Journal as “wise and caring”

    Library Journal describes the book as “wise and caring.”

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Grief and change after a parent’s death

Alexander Levy’s guide focuses on a loss that can arrive at any stage of adult life, whether a parent’s death is sudden or follows a prolonged illness, and whether the relationship was close or estranged. It considers the varied responses such a death can bring, including sorrow, awareness of one’s own mortality, shifts in identity, and changes in roles within the surviving family. The book frames this experience as both a family transition and a personal one, offering a guide to understanding and coping with the emotions and adjustments that follow.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults grieving the death of a parent
  • People navigating changes in family roles after a parent’s death
  • Those seeking a guide to grief across close or estranged parent-child relationships

Themes

Parental lossGrief and bereavementAdult identityFamily roles and change

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Book overview

This "wise and caring book" (Library Journal) is a guide to understanding and coping with grief and all of the disorienting emotions that accompany the death of our parents.
Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a prolonged illness, and whether we were close to or estranged from them, this passage proves inevitably more difficult than we thought it would be. From the recognition of our own mortality and sudden child-like sorrow to a sometimes-subtle change in identity or shift of roles in the surviving family, The Orphaned Adult guides readers through the storm of change this passage brings and anchors them with its compassionate and reassuring wisdom.
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