EPISODE · Jun 30, 2024 · 7H 6M
Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide
from Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Rachel Zimmerman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide Author: Rachel Zimmerman Narrator: Rachel Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Mental Health & Psychology Publisher's Summary: When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman’s door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could the man she’d married, a devoted father and robotics professor at MIT, have committed such a violent act? How would she explain this to her young daughters? And could she have stopped him?A longtime journalist, she probed obsessively, believing answers would help her survive. She interviewed doctors, suicide researchers, and a man who jumped off the same bridge and lived.Us, After examines domestic devastation and resurgence, digging into the struggle between public and private selves, life’s shifting perspectives, the work of motherhood, and the secrets we keep. In this memoir, Zimmerman confronts the unimaginable and discovers the good in what remains.“This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resilience that I’ve read.”—Tara Parker-Pope, The Washington Post
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide Author: Rachel Zimmerman Narrator: Rachel Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Mental Health & Psychology Publisher's Summary: When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman’s door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could the man she’d married, a devoted father and robotics professor at MIT, have committed such a violent act? How would she explain this to her young daughters? And could she have stopped him?A longtime journalist, she probed obsessively, believing answers would help her survive. She interviewed doctors, suicide researchers, and a man who jumped off the same bridge and lived.Us, After examines domestic devastation and resurgence, digging into the struggle between public and private selves, life’s shifting perspectives, the work of motherhood, and the secrets we keep. In this memoir, Zimmerman confronts the unimaginable and discovers the good in what remains.“This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resilience that I’ve read.”—Tara Parker-Pope, The Washington Post
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