Final Reminder: How I Emptied My Parent's House - Hardcover

"Flem's meditation deserves to take its place in that select library, alongside Tennyson's "In Memoriam" and C. S. Lewis's "A Grief Observed,"" --"The Sunday Times"

This taboo-breaking book deepens the understanding of the death of one's parents through the experiences of the author, a daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her parents never communicated their imprisonment experiences, causing Lydia Flem to grow up in a stifling silence that was finally broken upon their deaths as she emptied the old house. She discovers that the lonely process of bereavement is not only one of grieving, but a chaotic jumble of emotions that range from anger and oppressive, infinite pain to revulsion, remorse, and a strange sense of freedom.