Becoming a parent when your own family has fallen away is a strange kind of double life. One hand holds a newborn; the other still carries the grief of a mother, father, or sibling who is absent — by choice, by silence, or by necessity. This book is for the parent who wants to raise their children with warmth and steadiness while the old wounds are still healing. It does not tell you to reconcile, and it does not tell you to walk away. It shows you how to notice the patterns you swore you would never repeat, how to explain an absent grandmother in words a four-year-old can hold, how to build a village when the blood relatives are gone, and how to protect your children without turning them into confidants. Drawing on the lived reality of estrangement — its grief, its shame, its hard-won peace — this is a practical companion for parenting when no one prepared you. You are not doomed to repeat anything. Part of The Estrangement Library.
About the author
Rupert Callaway Sedgemoor writes for The Estrangement Library.
