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By: Eileen Vorbach Collins
ISBN: 978-1627204910
Apprentice House, 2023
2023 Sarton Winner: Memoir
When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bereaved parents who understand her pain on a level others cannot. No one in the group places a time limit on this grief. As the years pass, Eileen finds ways to honor the memories. She even learns to laugh again.
In Love in the Archives, a collection of linked narrative essays incorporating themes of surviving suicide loss, Judaism, interfaith marriage, and mental illness, Eileen walks us through those difficult years.
About the Author
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Eileen Vorbach Collins is a Baltimore native. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Loyola University. Eileen\\\\\\\'s essays about the grief of losing a child to suicide have received the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative nonfiction, the Gabriele Rico Challenge Award, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and was a finalist for the Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Award. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Eileen\\\\\\\'s essay collection Love in the Archives, originally titled Hold on Till the Sun Goes Down, received a Florida Writers Association Gold Royal Palm Award and was voted first runner up best book 2022.
To learn more about Eileen Vorbach Collins and her work, please see www.loveinthearchives.com