· Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss is a powerful new book by Lisa Romeo about the way our relationships with those we love change and deepen, even after death. Telling the story both of her father’s death and of her need to heal and go forward, this memoir is a moving account of the never-ending love between a father and daughter. The memoir . · Book Review: Starting With Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love After Loss by Lisa Romeo If an author is not famous, the trickiest thing about writing a memoir is to include material that interests others besides friends and family. · I read Lisa Romeo’s Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss while I taught Hamlet and could not stop comparing these texts, which share a few striking similarities, including father loss, a fatherly spirit who converses with the living, and head-on interruptions of cultural silences imposed on the bereaved. The first rule broken, of course, is the ban on speaking.
Lisa Romeo's Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter's Memoir of Love after Loss is a must-read for anyone who has suffered the loss of a parent. After her dad died, Romeo began to see and have conversations with her father that she could not, and did not, have when he was alive. Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter's Memoir of Love after Loss is a powerful new book by Lisa Romeo about the way our relationships with those we love change and deepen, even after death. Telling the story both of her father's death and of her need to heal and go forward, this memoir is a moving account of the never-ending love between a father and daughter. The memoir zigzags. Book Review: Starting With Goodbye: A Daughter's Memoir of Love After Loss by Lisa Romeo If an author is not famous, the trickiest thing about writing a memoir is to include material that interests others besides friends and family.
Lisa Romeo's Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter's Memoir of Love after Loss is a must-read for anyone who has suffered the loss of a parent. After her dad died, Romeo began to see and have conversations with her father that she could not, and did not, have when he was alive. Through those encounters, Romeo comes to understand and love her dad in a way that she could not, and did not, when he was alive. Description. Starting with Goodbye begins with loss and ends with love, as a midlife daughter rediscovers her enigmatic father after his death. Lisa has little time for grief, but when her dead dad drops in for “conversations,” his absent presence invites Lisa to examine why the parent she had turned away from in life now holds her spellbound. After his death, Romeo began examining their father/daughter relationship in essays. “Starting with Goodbye” incorporates some of that essay work, but the new book is told in a traditional.
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