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At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she'd lost it all. Reeling
from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support
herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a
writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal, even
swinging a pickax in a gold mine to pay the bills. When the mine
shut down, she moved to the Bay Area. Armed with moxie and samples
of her work, she barged into the offices of the Oakland Tribune and
was hired on the spot. She went on to become a nationally
syndicated columnist and household name whose column ran for over
thirty years and garnered more than twenty million readers. Told in
cinematic detail by bestselling author Julia Scheeres and
award-winning journalist Allison Gilbert, Listen, World! is the
inspiring story of a timeless maverick, capturing what it means to
take a gamble on self-fulfillment and find freedom along the way.
While the death of a parent is always painful, losing both is
life-altering. When author Allison Gilbert lost both parents at age
32, she could not find any books that spoke to her with the same
level of compassion and reassurance that she found in the support
group she belonged to, so she decided to write one of her own. The
result is a sensitive and candid portrayal of loss that brings
together experiences from famous and ordinary grief-stricken sons
and daughters that explores the regrets, heartache and sometimes,
relief, that accompanies pain and healing.
"Always Too Soon" provides a range of intimate conversations with
those - famous and not - who have lost both parents, providing
readers with a source of comfort and inspiration as they learn to
negotiate their new place in the world. Contributors include Hope
Edelman, Geraldine Ferraro, Dennis Franz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Yogi
Berra, Rosanne Cash, and Ice-T, as well as those who lost parents
to the Oklahoma City bombing, the World Trade Center bombings,
drunk driving, and more.
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