The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother Jackson Cassandra
Equal parts investigative and deeply introspective, The Wreck is a profound memoir about recognizing the echoes of history within ourselves, and the alchemy of turning inherited grief into political…
Specifikacia The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother Jackson Cassandra
Equal parts investigative and deeply introspective, The Wreck is a profound memoir about recognizing the echoes of history within ourselves, and the alchemy of turning inherited grief into political activism.There is a secret that young Cassandra Jackson doesn't know, and it's evident in the way her father cries her name out in his sleep. It's not until she meets her extended family for the first time that she realizes she is named after--and looks eerily like--her father's niece, who was killed in a car wreck along with her father's beloved mother, his only sister, and--as she soon discovers--his first wife.In this compelling memoir, Jackson retraces her and her family's past and finds a single common thread: the medical malpractice and neglect whose effects have caused needless loss and suffering in her family. It's as she steps back further that she realizes