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A haunting, remarkable family tale about invisible secrets and a daughter's trip to comprehend her parents. Anya Yurchyshyn grew up in a small townhouse in Boston, every area filled up with the souvenirs of her parents' daring international travels. On the outings to Egypt, Italy, and Saudi Arabia, her mother, Anita, and her father, George, resided an entirely independent life from the main one they led as the parents of Anya and her sister - the one that Anya never noticed. The parents she understood were a brittle, manipulative alcoholic and a short-tempered disciplinarian: people she thought had never been in love. When she was 16, Anya's father was wiped out in a car accident in Ukraine. At 32, she became an orphan when her mother drank herself to death. As she was cleaning up her years as a child home, she abruptly learned a trove of old words, photographs, and journals covered in the rubble of her mother's life. These lost documents advised a very different tale than the main one she'd believed to be true - of a forbidden romance; of a loving marriage, and the increased loss of a kid. With these revelations in hand, Anya undertook an investigation, interviewing family members and family friends, planing a trip to Wales and Ukraine, and delving deeply into her own difficult record searching for the reality, even uncovering the real circumstances of her father's death - not an incident, perhaps, but something more sinister. In this particular inspiring and unflinchingly genuine debut memoir, Anya interrogates her stories of her family and examines what this means to be our parents' children. What do we inherit, and what can we choose to leave back of? How do we evade the ghosts of somebody else's past? And may we learn to love our parents much less our parents, but simply as people? Common and personal; heartbreaking and redemptive, My Deceased Parents helps us to understand why sometimes those who love us best hurt us most.
