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    The Rules of Inheritance

    Written by Claire Bidwell Smith

    Narrated by Claire Bidwell Smith

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    About this audiobook

    A resonant memoir of the ways untimely good-byes echo through the years by a writer who has considered every nuance of grief.

    At age fourteen, Claire Bidwell Smith-an only child- learned that both of her parents had cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one before she came of age compels Claire to make a series of fraught choices, set against the glittering backdrop of New York and Los Angeles - and the pall of regret. When the inevitable happens, and Claire is alone in the world, she is inconsolable at the revelation that suddenly she is no one's special person. It is only when Claire eventually falls in love, marries, and becomes a mother that she emerges from the fog of grief.

    Defying a conventional framework, this story is told using the five stages of grief as a window into Smith's experience. As in the very best memoirs, the author's powerful and exquisite writing renders personal events into universal experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 20, 2012
    ISBN9781101579671
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    The Rules of Inheritance
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    Claire Bidwell Smith

     Claire Bidwell Smith is a therapist specializing in grief. She lives in Los Angeles.

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    • 4/5
      One hell of an emotional roller coaster ride. Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      I was really quite enjoying this until the end. "I went through all these horrible things but I turned into a perfectly normal middle-class married mother - and you can to!" is not really the message I was looking for, if I was looking for one at all.
    • 5/5
      By the time Claire Bidwell Smith was 25 years old, she had lost both of her parents to cancer--the ugly kind of cancer that reduces its victims to unrecognizable skeletons, wracked with pain. This memoir is the story of her loss, and how she survived the five stages of grief as developed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. A spoiled only child of a bright, life-loving mother and an older father, Claire was in her freshman year of college, hundreds of miles from her parents' home in Atlanta, when her mother died. Helpless and hopeless she dropped out of college and moved back to Atlanta to be with her father. Together they did nothing, not knowing how to live without the force that she was in their lives.