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Therapist's
Daughter
A
Memoir
in
Verse
Description
2024 International Book
Awards Finalist in Poetry8220Gal
Cloud8217sunique memoir is written in
semi-poetic style of Greek classics. The reader
watches her dance her way past complicated
emotional roadblocks, increasingly creative,
the
determined, graceful, and wise.82218212Suan
Margolis Balk,
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Founding Director of HateBrakers/New Conscience
Retired Columbia University Professor ampFormer
Literary Editor at PlayboyTherapist8217sDaughter
delves into one woman's internal perceptions of
her enigmatic father. Gail Cloud8217smemoir in
verse chronicles the cost and consequences we
suffer when we are taught not to believe in us
but to believe in another8212folowed by the
powerful journey back to ourselves8212whre we
see and own our truths, and create lives of
integrity and meaning.In Part One HIM, she
paints a sensory portrait of who her father was,
not just to her, but as a complex soul we may
come to empathize with through her memories of
good times at breakfast, and his simple love of
baseball. Tenderness offers contrast to early
confusing, traumatic experiences affecting many
father-daughter bonds.In Part Two ME, we meet
Gail the daughter, the dancer, as well as her
kindreds, and what it is like to be lied to while
believing the lie.In Part Three COMING UNDONE,
we witness her dad8217sdemise, his fall into
dementia, and her virgin encounter with the
truth.In Part Four MY DANCE, this
poet8217sverse carries us on the wings of her
growth and indepen-dance, as she pirouettes to a
place of acceptance and offers us all a new story
of flourishing within.