On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After it Happened by Lori Schafer

Sales have been steady at an average of four copies a day since the book's release on November 7, 2014. It currently has an average rating of 4.0 stars on (4.6 on Amazon UK). My memoir On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After It Happened has attracted a great deal of interest in the months since its release, and has achieved #1 Bestseller status on Amazon in the categories of 'Mental Illness' and 'Dysfunctional Families' in both the U.S. Winner of a Gold Medal in the 2015 eLit Book Awards!įinalist - National Indie Excellence Awards 2015 Keywords: mental illness memoirs, schizophrenia, mother daughter relationships, mental health awareness, homeless teens, child abuse, autobiographies by women Secondary Genre: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families Genre: PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Schizophrenia But perhaps, at last, it’s time for me to tell mine. No one will ever know her side of the story now.

It wasn't until last year that I learned that she had died - in 2007. That was how my mother - my real mother - raised me.

A year and a half later I would be living alone on the street on the other side of the country, wondering whether I could even survive on my own.īut I did. My family, my home, my friends, my future. For years I’ve lived with the sadness of knowing that she, too, was a helpless victim – a victim of a terrible disease that consumed and destroyed the strong and caring woman I had once called Mom.

I experienced first-hand the terror of watching someone I loved transform into a monster, the terror of discovering that I was to be her primary victim. I had what every teenager wants: a stable family, a nice home in the suburbs, a great group of friends, big plans for my future, and no reason to believe that any of that would ever change. I was sixteen years old, a junior in high school and an honors student. On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness by Lori Schafer I experienced first-hand the terror of watching someone I loved transform into a monster - the terror of discovering that I was to be her primary victim.

On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After it Happened by Lori Schafer