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Friday, October 16th

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Price: $25.95

NANCY RAPPAPORT

discusses

In Her Wake:
A Child Psychiatrist Explores
the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide

Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome local psychiatrist NANCY RAPPAPORT for a discussion of In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide.

In her new book In Her Wake, Nancy Rappaport looks inward to explore her mother's suicide, when Nancy was four years old. Through interviews, newspapers, court depositions, her mother's papers and her own memories, Dr. Rappaport seeks to understand her mother's life and her own effort to come to terms with her mother's death.

"A powerful and eloquent book about loss and incomprehension, and a unique journey of learning and reconciliation." —Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind)

"Rappaport weaves a stunning narrative of perspective, profound sadness and unrelenting hope… She has also mapped an inspiring course for anyone to dissect family dynamics and mental illness, hoping to understand and, finally, accept." —Publishers Weekly (starred)

CONTACT:

General Info:
617.661.1515

Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1

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Nancy Rappaport is a child psychiatrist in Cambridge, where she practices at Cambridge Hospital, and is an attending psychiatrist for the Cambridge Public School System. She is also on the faculty for the Harvard Medical School, and is involved in numerous local organizations, including the Teen Health Center and the Cambridge Health Alliance.

Photo Credit: Essdras M. Suarez