Wellesley Free Library to Host Psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport for Presentation Based on her Memoir "In Her Wake"

Over one million people in the world die by suicide every year, leaving millions more bereft.  The partners, children, parents, siblings, friends, colleagues and caregivers left behind are often plagued by a corrosive sense of guilt and shame.  And the stigma associated with suicide commonly causes survivors to hide the truth and suppress their anguish. Nancy's poignant, fearlessly honest, and inspiring memoir is at once an investigation of the mystery surrounding her mother's suicide, which followed a bitter divorce and protracted custody battle, and a revelation that her brave and uncompromising examination of her family's  past offers others the knowledge that it is possible to navigate through a devasting loss, overcome isolation, and endure and thrive.