Elizabeth Stone, whose grandparents came from Italy to Brooklyn, artfully weaves her own family stories among the stories of more than a hundred people of all backgrounds, ages, and regions - clarifying for us predictable types of family ...

A Boy I Once Knew is a powerful book about loss, memory, and the ways in which we belong to each other. This is a revealing, moving, and wholly unexpected book.

. . The nightmare is suicide, teen suicide by overdose. Valley of the Shadow provides a rare and intimate window on one familys life thrown into a tailspin by their daughters suicide attempt.