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A Child Psychiatrist Explores Her Mother's Suicide
October 16, 2009
Nancy Rappaport assistant professor, psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport discusses In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide.

In her new book In Her Wake, Nancy Rappaport looks inward to explore her mother's suicide, when Nancy was four years old. Through interviews, newspapers, court depositions, her mother's papers, and her own memories, Dr. Rappaport seeks to understand her mother's life and her own effort to come to terms with her mother's death.

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Image of In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide
Author: Nancy Rappaport
Publisher: Basic Books (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages
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