Split
Subtitle: stories from a generation raised on divorce
By: edited by Ava Chin
Contributors: Chin, Ava
Publisher: Contemporary Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Children of divorced parents -- United States; Children of single parents -- United States; Adult children of divorced parents -- United States
Description: This book is an anthology of intimate personal accounts by hip young journalists and writers in their 20s and 30s. Split will be a source of insight, comfort, and healing for all those who were children of divorce. High-profile Gen X writers who have contributed to this volume include Paula Gilovich, Jill Priluck, Ayana Byrd, Matt Briggs, and Jen Robinson. Like a support group between the covers of a book, this collection of 15 stories articulates some of the most difficult emotional aspects of growing up in a broken home, while providing hope for the future. "In putting together this book, I wanted to finally reveal what it was like for us, the first generation that grew up in divorced families en masse. I wanted to hear from the very generation that until now had remained silent. What was it like for them to watch their home life split in two? How did they juggle their relationship with parents who were learning to fly solo again, many of whom later remarried? And now in their twenties and thirties, what were their takes on love and marriage today."--Introduction.