b'Presents adult children survivors accounts of their loss, grief, and resolution following a parents suicide. Separate sections offer perspectives on the deaths of mothers and fathers. Also includes the reflections of four siblings on the shared loss of their mother.Blue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival Christopher Lukas, Doubleday, 2008. Christopher (Kit) Lukas, co-author of Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide, survived the suicide of his mother when he was a young boy. Neither he nor his brother were told how shed died, and both went on to confront their own struggles with depression, a disease that ran throughout their family. In 1997, Kits brother Tony, a Pulitzer-prize winning author, took his own life. Blue Genes is Kits exploration of his family history, his personal journey and his determination to find strength and hope.Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief David C. Treadway, Basic Books, 1996.The author, now a successful family therapist, was just twenty when his mother, a longtime alcoholic, took her own life. Even as he counsels his clients on how to deal with death, loss and grief, he finds himself increasingly unable to manage his own. Turning to his own therapist for help, Treadway includes the reader on his journey of healing as he finally comes to terms with his mothers death.In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mothers Suicide Nancy Rappaport, Basic Books, 2009. Dr. Nancy Rappaport, a child psychiatrist, lost her mother to suicide at the age of four. Encouraged by her own childrens curiosity about their grandmother, and fortified by her professional training in psychiatry, she began to look into her mothers life and death. Drawing on court papers, newspaper Resource and Healing Guide 35'