Product Description: City of One is a poignant and beautifully written memoir of childhood loss and its enduring meaning. Francine Cournos was three years old when her father died, and by the time she was eleven, her mother was dead of breast cancer. "I had been hurled over a cliff," she writes...read more

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A successful doctor movingly recounts the tragic beginnings of her life as an orphan, her inner journey from denial to acceptance, and how she grew from an alienated child in foster care to be a happy, productive adult. Reprint.