Judy L. Mandel was born into a family crippled by grief. But it would be years before she would discover the shocking circumstances of their loss.
In her award-winning memoir, Replacement Child, Mandel tells the true story of a horrifying accident: A plane crashes into a family’s home, leaving one daughter severely burned and another dead. The death of the child leaves a hole in the family that threatens to tear it apart. In an attempt to fill the painful gap, the parents give birth to a “replacement child.”
This powerful tale of love and lies, family and hope, is an intimate account of being brought into the world to provide “a salve for the burns.” As a child, Mandel unwittingly rides the deep and hidden currents of her family’s grief—until her discovery of this family secret, years later, changes her life forever, forcing her to confront the complex layers of her relationships with her father, mother, and sister.
The author, Judy Mandel managed to weave her parents’ and sisters’ tragic story and how that impacted her into a flawless journey between the past and present. A horrible airplane accident that took place in a matter of seconds is divided into 19 chapters and perfectly ‘shuffled’ (like a deck of cards) into over 50 short and precise memoir chapters. And back to the accident, suddenly, just like it must have felt to all on board. Slow Motion. That’s what it felt like. You know, when someone describes a tragic accident, they say ‘it felt like slow motion’. And that’s what the accident in Replacement Child feels like.
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You are on the airplane, you are in the apartment building it crashes into. You run down the stairs with Judy’s mother as she rescues one of her daughters. Then as you are left hanging, suspended seconds before impact, you are taken into the heart and mind of Judy, born after the tragedy, born to heal her parents and surviving sister from the horrible death of the one who died. Incredible. Simply an incredible story. I highly recommend this book!
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Replacement Child Info
- File Size: 739 KB ( Download PDF :
) - Print Length: 330 pages
- Publication Date: May 7, 2013
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- Author: Judy L. Mandel
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1580054765
- Publisher: Seal Press; Reprint edition (May 7, 2013)
About the Author
Judy L. Mandel began her career as a journalist, branched out to public relations, and settled in corporate marketing, where she worked for more than 20 years as a marketing director for several Fortune 100 companies. Mandel is now a student in the MFA program of Stony Brook Southampton and lives in Connecticut with her husband.
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