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"Hoarding and Other Family Secrets: A Reading and Discussion" featuring Deborah Derrickson Kossmann, author of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir and Kathy Ewing author of Missing: Coming to Terms with a Borderline Mother will be at Mac's on Saturday, March 1st at 5 pmDeborah Derrickson Kossmann's Lost Found Kept: A Memoir won the inaugural 2023 Aurora Polaris Prize in Creative Nonfiction from Trio House Press and was published in January. Her essays, poetry and feature articles have appeared in The New York Times, literary journals and other publications including the Nashville Review, The Woven Tale Press, Psychotherapy Networker, and Solstice Literary Magazine. A licensed clinical psychologist in full-time practice, she lives outside Philadelphia.
"In dealing with the terrifying reality of her mother's obsessive hoarding, Deborah Derrickson Kossmann is a writer of uncommon courage and a daughter of uncommon compassion. The reader takes a deep dive into empathy and fear, rage and frustration as Kossmann, a mental health professional, tackles an unimaginable physical and psychological chore. Hoarding has been written about before, but never with such grace."-Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of Deep End of the Ocean.
Kathy Ewing has written for such publications as The Millions, Bark, America, Belt, Brevity, and The National Catholic Reporter. Her recent books, published by Shanti Arts, are Lead Me, Guide Me: The Life and Example of Father Dan Begin (2020) and A Grandmother’s ABC Book (2023). Her family memoir, Missing: Coming to Terms with a Borderline Mother, was published in 2016.
Kathy Ewing knows what it's like to be raised by someone variously sullen, pleasant, angry, demanding, manipulative, engaging, and all the rest-sometimes changing from one mood to the next in a single conversation. In this personal memoir she writes of her memories from my childhood, in rough chronology, showing her mother's troubling behavior -the behavior that mystified her until she found a name for it, until she could put it in the context of Borderline Personality Disorder. The memoir shows how the diagnosis, the wrestling with her history, and the very writing of it have provided some comfort, if not healing.
Event address:
1820 Coventry Rd,
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
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1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118
