Stay: A Story of Family, Love, and Other Traumas [Hardcover]

Julie FingershsStayis so rich, wise, funny, and beautifully written. Its hard to put down once you start.
Anne Lamott, #1New York Timesbestselling author
Named one of Zibby Owens's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2024

Fingersh's story should help readers dealing with family secrets and mental and physical health issues feel less alone.
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Called Rich, wise, funny, and beautifully written by #1New York Timesbestselling author Anne Lamott,Stay:A Story of Family, Love, and Other Traumasis a riveting debut that captures the joyous and painful complexity of family love and loyalty, the cost of family secrets, and the quest to help the people we love most without losing our own way. Its also a rare window into two of the biggest epidemics gripping society today: mental illness and chronic illness and the ways in which they affect relationships, personal identity, and the blueprint of our lives.
Told through the eyes of the author as both a young sibling and a mid-life parent, Julie Fingersh seamlessly weaves together present and past, unlocking the puzzle of her early adulthood with her struggling brother from the vantage point of a mid-life parent on the verge of an empty nest and her next chapter, just as her college-bound daughters life suddenly careens off track.
Sparkling with warmth, wit, and lyrical prose, Fingersh provides insight and sustenance for everyone wrestling with mid-lifes ghosts, parenting adult children, and the twin pillagers of fear and the inner critic. Above all,Stayis for readers who want to think, feel, laugh, cry, and perhaps see their own lifes trajectory and path forward with new eyes.