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Author: Cheryl Dellasega Phd ,
Gavin, Marguerite
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 15.70cm
Weight: 0.218kg
ISBN: 9781441783356
ISBN 10: 1441783350
Publication Date: 20 January 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[The selections] share a raw immediacy...there are lessons here that will help every mother dealing with an adolescent daughter. -- Publishers Weekly By describing her own heartbreaking experience and compiling the stories and poems of hundreds of mothers across the country, Dellasega paints a picture of lost teenage girls and their mothers' fights to save not only their relationships, but often their daughters' lives. The book succeeds because the mothers describe distressing times candidly and openly, not in hushed tones often used when relaying deep family issues. -- Amazon.com Review Thank you [Cheryl Dellasega] for showing mothers everywhere that we are not alone in our struggle to help our daughters. . . Surviving Ophelia is mesmerizing and the truth of its stories resonates. -- Sue Wellman, President, The Ophelia Project This courageous book offers clear insight and direction to mothers struggling with how to help their daughters restore their future while they reclaim their own lives. -- Carol Maxym, co-author of Teens in Turmoil
By describing her own heartbreaking experience and compiling the stories and poems of hundreds of mothers across the country, Dellasega paints a picture of lost teenage girls and their mothers' fights to save not only their relationships, but often their daughters' lives. The book succeeds because the mothers describe distressing times candidly and openly, not in hushed tones often used when relaying deep family issues. -- Amazon.com Review [The selections] share a raw immediacy...there are lessons here that will help every mother dealing with an adolescent daughter. -- Publishers Weekly This courageous book offers clear insight and direction to mothers struggling with how to help their daughters restore their future while they reclaim their own lives. -- Carol Maxym, co-author of Teens in Turmoil Thank you [Cheryl Dellasega] for showing mothers everywhere that we are not alone in our struggle to help our daughters. . . Surviving Ophelia is mesmerizing and the truth of its stories resonates. -- Sue Wellman, President, The Ophelia Project
Author Information
Cheryl Dellasega, PhD, is the author of five nonfiction books on issues affecting women and, as the founder of Club and Camp Ophelia, has helped diverse groups of girls confront and overcome relational aggression. She is a professor of humanities in the College of Medicine and professor of women's studies at Penn State and lives in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Marguerite Gavin is a seasoned theater veteran, a five-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award, and the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones and Publishers Weekly awards. She has been an actor, director, and audiobook narrator for her entire professional career. With over four hundred titles to her credit, her narration spans nearly every genre, from nonfiction to mystery, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and children's fiction. AudioFile magazine says, Marguerite Gavin...has a sonorous voice, rich and full of emotion.
