{"product_id":"stepping-back-from-the-ledge-used","title":"Stepping Back From the Ledge (USED)","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA deeply moving memoir about grief, suicide loss, family trauma, and healing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStepping Back from the Ledge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores how we mourn someone we love while confronting the pain they left behind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNamed a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and one of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStepping Back from the Ledge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Laura Trujillo is an intimate and powerful memoir about the complicated bonds between mothers and daughters, the legacy of family trauma, and the possibility of finding hope after devastating loss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLaura Trujillo had always shared a close relationship with her mother. She raised her four children just miles from their grandmother’s home in Phoenix, building a life in which her mother remained an important and beloved presence. But only three months after Laura moved her family to Cincinnati for a new job, she received unimaginable news: her mother had died by suicide at the Grand Canyon, a place she had deeply loved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the aftermath, Laura is left with grief—and questions that seem impossible to answer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDespite their closeness, mother and daughter had each carried painful secrets. Years earlier, Laura revealed that she had experienced sexual abuse as a teenager at the hands of her stepfather, a truth she had kept hidden in an attempt to protect her mother. 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