Teresa Carson, the youngest of ten in a blue-collar family, unflinchingly writes about her chaotic past about which she had been taught to keep silent \u2013 her mentally ill mother, her enraged and abandoning father, her schizophrenic brother, her rape at fourteen, and her long-term relationship with a married man. It is her brother\u2019s suicide that makes the poet aware of how dangerous shame-filled silence can be, and it is his suicide that pushes her to find her voice. Throughout, the poet chronicles her struggle to come to terms with the range of emotions she feels for her brother \u2013 including \u201cbad\u201d ones, such as her relief when he dies \u2013 and to understand why he committed suicide.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Teresa Carson, the youngest of ten in a blue-collar family, unflinchingly writes about her chaotic past about which she had been taught to keep silent \u2013 her mentally ill mother, her enraged and abandoning father, her schizophrenic brother, her rape at fourteen, and her long-term relationship with a married man. It is her brother\u2019s suicide…<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":5723,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[53,47],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5722","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-english-fiction","product_cat-kitaplar","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n