Category: Book: Notes On Parental Estrangement

Florida, USA and want to read Notes on Parental Estrangement for free… you can now borrow it from the extremely awesome Pinellas Public Library Cooperative online system here: https://pplc.overdrive.com/media/6134949

Now that my strangest book yet is published and done, it’s time to go back to regular programming. Those Strange Women Book #4 is in the works. Stay tuned. 

Relief continues to be the emotion I feel whenever I am reminded that my mother is dead. That’s the ugly truth.  

write something about my books. Why I wrote it, what I like about it, what I think of it, etc etc. But for Notes On Parental Estrangement (which, fun fact, I call NOPE in my files folder), I just don’t feel like saying much. Possibly because I’ve already said everything I need to about the book in the book itself. Mostly because I’m so done thinking about it. I’m glad I wrote it, I had a good process writing it, but that phase is over. And boy am I glad it is. 

Is out. Today. The end. Links to buy it here. 

(Also my first, and possibly only, non-fiction book…)

So your estranged parent is dying and someone decided to tell you against your estranged parent’s wishes. Should you go visit, or not? Should you go to the funeral, or not? And what would you end up discovering about that parent you never knew, whose face you don’t even remember, whose life you have heard nothing about in recent years? What would you do and realise in the years after their eventual death? How would you grieve? Would you even grieve? 

Those were the questions lesbian fiction author, Anna Ferrara had after getting a text message from a stranger on an otherwise regular weekday morning, informing her of the impending death of the mother who disappeared from her life when she was 5. What followed was a complicated 800+ days of discovering the secrets of a woman she knew nothing about, the uncovering of past hurts and buried emotions she didn’t even remember she had, which she documented in a series of journal entries that eventually provided the content for this book. 

Written for adult children of absent, toxic or negligent parents and professionals seeking a real-world case study of the subject, this book is a real and honest record of the stages of grief, coping and self-discovery an adult child will go through when their estranged parent remains self-centred and unloving up till the very end.

Notes on Parental Estrangement
Coming to you on 6 April 2021.
Available for pre-order now.