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The Rules of Inheritance
- Narrated by: Claire Bidwell Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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The Rules of Inheritance
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Publisher's Summary
A resonant memoir of the ways untimely good-byes echo through the years, by a writer who has considered every nuance of grief.
At age 14, Claire Bidwell Smith - an only child - learned that both of her parents had cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one before she came of age compels Claire to make a series of fraught choices, set against the glittering backdrop of New York and Los Angeles - and the pall of regret. When the inevitable happens, and Claire is alone in the world, she is inconsolable at the revelation that suddenly she is no one's special person. It is only when Claire eventually falls in love, marries, and becomes a mother that she emerges from the fog of grief.
Defying a conventional framework, this story is told using the five stages of grief as a window into Smith's experience. As in the very best memoirs, the author's powerful and exquisite writing transforms personal events into universal experience.