White Flag
by Judy L. Mandel
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Pub Date Oct 01 2022 | Archive Date Jan 10 2023
Meryl Moss Media Group | Legacy Book Press
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Description
Cheryl said many times that "I'm done with that life, I'll never go back to it." But she did. When her Aunt Judy finds her in jail after two years of thinking she may be dead, she hopes and prays this is a second chance for her niece. Her sensitive, funny, bookworm niece. Her big sister's eldest daughter, the sister who has since died. And through writing White Flag, bestselling author Judy L. Mandel finds that it didn't start with Cheryl, but that the tentacles of trauma explored in her first book Replacement Child have grabbed hold of her niece too. She struggles with being powerless to help Cheryl, and she discovers that transgenerational trauma and epigenetics may have started this avalanche of pain. She wonders why some people can recover from addiction, and others cannot. Why some are able to raise their white flag of surrender.
Advance Praise
“We rarely know the deeper ramifications of tragedy through people’s lives. Judy L. Mandel’s book White Flag shows us the true story of how the same tragedy I drew from for In the Unlikely Event spiraled through her family, giving a glimpse of the way trauma can be felt for generations.”
—Judy Blume, New York Times bestselling author and Library of Congress Living Legend
“Judy Mandel’s new memoir, White Flag, is both harrowing and heartbreaking. It’s also strangely timely. Though deeply personal and intimate, the book asks us all to consider our own agency – and lack thereof – when things go wrong.”
—Richard Russo, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for Empire Falls
“Judy Mandel’s second memoir, White Flag, plumbs the depths of the original generational trauma that affected not only Judy’s parents, but their children and grandchildren. … An extremely important and timely book that is a lifeline thrown out into the cold and unforgiving ocean that is our present time.”
—Kaylie Jones, award-winning author,
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, Speak Now, Lies My Mother Never Told Me
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781737592631 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
