Psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport on her new memoir about her mother’s suicide

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Author and child psychiatrist NANCY RAPPAPORT’s mother committed suicide when the writer was just four years old. She has recently published a memoir about her quest to understand her mother’s tragic death and how being a survivor of suicide loss shaped her as a daughter, wife, mother and professional.  Rappaport’s book is In her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide.
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