从悬崖上后退：一个女儿对真理和更新的探索

在这本关于悲伤和生存的精彩回忆录中，一位女性在母亲自杀后直面家人的秘密，提出了一个看似不可能的问题：在修复亲人造成的伤害时，你如何哀悼他们？
“劳拉·特鲁希略（Laura Trujillo）从绝望的黑暗‘地下室’中复活，向我们所有人保证：有希望。有治愈。永远有爱。这本书将拯救生命。”-康妮·舒尔茨，《伊利敦的女儿》一书的作者
劳拉·特鲁希略在成年后的大部分时间里都与母亲关系密切，在离他们深爱的祖母菲尼克斯家几英里的地方养育了四个孩子。但就在她把年轻的家人搬到辛辛那提找新工作的三个月后，劳拉收到了令人震惊的消息：她的母亲从一个悬崖上跳到了大峡谷，自杀了。劳拉知道她母亲一直喜欢大峡谷。
劳拉和她的母亲有着深厚而特殊的感情，但他们彼此也都隐瞒着他们生活中最深刻的真相。成年后，劳拉终于打破了她对自己十几岁时在继父手中遭受的性虐待的沉默——这是劳拉为保护母亲而埋下的秘密。母亲去世后，劳拉开始了一场情感的冒险，寻找可以解释抑郁症、代际创伤和家庭共同心碎的线索。当她回到大峡谷时，它变成了一片绿洲，滋养了劳拉寻求救赎与和平的过程。当劳拉与自己的感情搏斗时，她开辟了一条新的前进道路。
感人而亲密，有力地讲述，从壁架上后退是对母亲和女儿之间的纽带以及面对真相所能带来的希望的非凡探索。
Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter’s Search for Truth and Renewal
In this stunning memoir of grief and survival, one woman confronts her family’s secrets in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide, asking a seemingly impossible question: How do you mourn a loved one as you repair the injuries they inflicted?
“Laura Trujillo resurfaces from the dark ‘sub-basement’ of despair with assurances for us all: There is hope. There is healing. Always, there is love. This book will save lives.”—Connie Schultz, author of The Daughters of Erietown
Laura Trujillo had been close to her mother for most of her adult life, raising her four children within a few miles of their beloved grandmother’s Phoenix home. But just three months after moving her young family to Cincinnati for a new job, Laura receives shocking news: Her mother had taken her own life—by jumping off a ledge into the Grand Canyon, a place Laura knew her mother had always loved.
Laura and her mother had shared a profound and special bond, yet each had also kept from the other the deepest truths about their lives. As an adult, Laura finally broke her silence about the sexual abuse she had suffered as a teenager at the hands of her stepfather—a secret Laura had buried to protect her mother. After her mother’s death, Laura embarks on an emotional odyssey, searching for clues that could explain the depression, intergenerational trauma, and shared heartbreaks in her family. When she returns to the Grand Canyon, it becomes an oasis that nurtures Laura’s search for redemption and peace. As Laura wrestles with her feelings, she forges a new path forward.
Moving and intimate, powerfully told, Stepping Back from the Ledge is a remarkable exploration of the bond between a mother and daughter, and of the hope that can come from facing the truth.

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