Product Description: When Marcia Aldrich’s friend took his own life at the age of forty-six, they had known each other many years. As part of his preparations for death, he gave her many of his possessions, concealing his purposes in doing so, and when he committed his long-contemplated act, he was alone in a bare apartment...read more

The author's memoir recounts growing up in the 1950s under the influence of her mother's ideas of femininity, the tragic early death of her sister, and her own rebelliousness, and describes her struggle to raise her daughter alone. 12,000 first printing. (view table of contents)