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Audrey Hyams Romoff's story of her mother's Holocaust survival, parental loss and inherited trauma
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thurSday, NOVEMBER 13
After a Family Tragedy, How One Woman Made Her Way Back to the Light
 
This is Audrey Hyams Romoff's story of her mother's Holocaust survival, parental loss and resilience in the face of inherited trauma
By Leanne Delap

A central tragedy—the deaths of both of her parents in a double suicide—opens and closes Audrey Hyams Romoff’s memoir.

The longtime Toronto publicist begins The Ripple Eclipse: Turning the Tide of Inherited Trauma by taking us through the day up until this happened, and ends the book with the leaden and stunned immediate aftermath of it.

In between, she explores the real inciting incident, which took place many decades earlier. Her mother and grandmother were Holocaust survivors, and the ways they coped with that experience trickled down through the generations of her family. Hyams Romoff beautifully sews together her family’s story with hard-won insights about how to exist with and move on from such formative trauma.

 
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