DUNDAS, Ontario - Nov. 11, 2015 - PRLog -- Much interest has been generated about the impact of trauma and its transmission from generation to generation. In this poignant and humorous coming-of-age memoir, Toronto psychotherapist, Pearl Goodman, writes about just that topic.
When Their Memories Became Mine: Moving Beyond My Parents' Past intertwines Ms Goodman's experiences growing up in the 60's and 70's in a predominately White Anglo Saxon Toronto as a young Jewish girl and child of Holocaust survivors.
This is a book that will resonate with anyone who grew up with parents who escaped similar tragedies and for anyone wishing to understand that impact on children.
The advance reviews for this book have been glowing.
Dr. Yael Danieli, Clinical psychologist and Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children, New York, NY writes:
"With a keen attention to detail, Pearl Goodman deftly weaves her parents' tragic stories and their aftermath, Canadian realities, and her own, to reveal how legacies of traumatic experiences are lived out from generation to generation. A compelling and insightful read."
Kathy Page, author of Alphabet and Paradise & Elsewhere had this to say:
"Pearl Goodman’s memoir does far more than paint a vivid and often wryly funny picture of her childhood in 1960s Toronto. It charts her growing understanding that her parents' frailties and the consequent eccentricities of her upbringing were not wilful or whimsical, but the ongoing outcome of their suffering during the Holocaust. When Their Memories Became Mine is a moving first-hand account of the way trauma passes from one generation to the next, and how a child of survivors has risen to the difficult task of excavating and articulating a family history that is both intensely personal and historically relevant."
Pearl Goodman was born, raised, and resides in Toronto, Canada. After graduating from the University of Toronto, she taught high school English and Dramatic Arts. Then she chose to train as a psychotherapist and has now been in private practice for over ten years. Words and the human condition have always been her passions.
When Their Memories Became Mine: Moving Beyond My Parents' Past ISBN 978-1-927637-25-8 is distributed by Ingram and will be released on November 16, 2015. The book is available at all Amazon locations, Chapters/Indigo: Barnes and Noble: Kindle, Nook, and Apple I-book.
For further information visit http://bridgeross.com/memory.html
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