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
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
