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020    1101906693|q(hardcover) 
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100 1  Gerson, Stéphane,|eauthor. 
245 10 Disaster Falls :|ba family story /|cStéphane Gerson. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCrown,|c[2017] 
300    258 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256). 
520 2  "A piercing and luminescent catalogue of a father's grief,
       parsing the shapes and distances of profound loss into a 
       way forward for a family in crisis"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520 2  "A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we 
       know is swept away. On a day like any other, on a rafting 
       trip down Utah's Green River, Stephane Gerson's eight-year
       -old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls.
       That same night, as darkness fell, Stephane huddled in a 
       tent with his wife, Alison, and their older son, Julian, 
       trying to understand what seemed inconceivable. 'It's just
       the three of us now,' Alison said over the sounds of a 
       light rain and, nearby, the rushing river. 'We cannot do 
       it alone. We have to stick together.' Disaster Falls 
       chronicles the aftermath of that day and their shared 
       determination to stay true to Alison's resolution. At the 
       heart of the book is Stephane's portrait of a marriage 
       critically tested. Husband and wife grieve in radically 
       different ways that threaten to isolate each of them in 
       their post-Owen worlds. ('He feels so far,' Stephane says,
       when Alison shows him a selfie Owen had taken. 'He feels 
       so close,' she says). With beautiful specificity, Stephane
       shows how they resist that isolation and reconfigure their
       marriage from within. As Stephane navigates his grief, the
       memoir expands to explore how society reacts to the death 
       of a child. He depicts the 'good death' of his father, 
       which enlarges Stephane's perspective on mortality. He 
       excavates the history of the Green River--rife with 
       hazards not mentioned in the rafting company's brochures. 
       He explores how stories can both memorialize and obscure a
       person's life--and how they can rescue us. Disaster Falls 
       is a powerful account of a life cleaved in two--raw, 
       truthful, and unexpectedly consoling"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Gerson, Stéphane. 
600 10 Gerson, Stéphane|xFamily. 
600 10 Gerson, Stéphane|xMarriage. 
650  0 Drowning|zUtah|zGreen River. 
650  0 Children|zUnited States|xDeath. 
650  0 Fathers and sons|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Married people|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Family crises|zUnited States. 
650  0 Parental grief|zUnited States. 
650  0 Loss (Psychology) 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
650  7 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood.|2bisacsh 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aGerson, Stéphane, author.|tDisaster 
       Falls|bFirst edition.|dNew York : Crown, [2017]
       |z9781101906705 
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