{"product_id":"we-dont-talk-about-that-one-familys-journey-to-the-other-side-of-tragedy-paperback","title":"We Don't Talk About That: One Family's Journey to the Other Side of Tragedy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmanda Schoepp\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"...like a literary atlas, a detailed mapping of a sprawling family's path through the wake of tragedy.\"-Vince Granata, author of \u003cem\u003eEverything Is Fine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Schoepp uses careful research and compassionate reflection to trace the echoes of trauma across multiple generations of her own family's history.\"-Alexandra A. Chan, author of \u003cem\u003eIn the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Amanda Schoepp was thirteen, she took a sleeper train with her grandfather from Los Angeles to New Orleans. On that trip, he shared how his parents died. It wasn't cancer or old age or pickled livers-it was murder-suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor him to share this was rare because, following the 1963 tragedy, an unspoken agreement became oath among immediate family: Never discuss it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvoidance was seemingly easier than facing the pain, and the elders passed that belief on through generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeveraging a decade of research and interviews with her wonderfully dysfunctional Cajun family, Schoepp illuminates for the first time the realities of her lineage, exploring the complexities of generational trauma and the ways a singular event can shape the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Don't Talk About That \u003c\/em\u003efollows her Southern family's overnight upheaval, the unbounding resilience that finds its way through the cracks, and how Schoepp uniquely fits into the greater patchwork of it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55232733151565,"sku":"9798897473151","price":36.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/pnoKsJM5Hd9798897473151.webp?v=1793307031","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/we-dont-talk-about-that-one-familys-journey-to-the-other-side-of-tragedy-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}