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Original Title:	La disparition
ISBN:	0393047768 (ISBN13: 9780393047769)
Edition Language:	English

The Disappearance

Geneviève Jurgensen

Hardcover | Pages: 168 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 141 Users | 25 Reviews

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In a series of letters to a friend Genevieve Jurgensen tells about the deaths of her two little girls, Mathilde 7 1/2 and Elise 4 1/2, in a car crash.
To say that it is devastating is really understating it.
It brought back a lot of memories for me of Nov 30, 2004 when my son passed away suddenly in a tragic accident, a house fire in our case.
I remember the sudden irrevocable knowledge of his death, how it couldn't be undone. He was alive and then he wasn't, just like that. I remember going over and over it in my mind trying to change it somehow, I mean how unlikely was it that those exact circumstances could take place with this result.
I know how it is to live in two places in time; the time of the death and the after. I have never left the time of his death completely.
I completely resonate with her statement: "Suffering was the last way in which I could love my children."

Still, I thought I was doing OK emotionally reading this book until page 95, when I fell apart completely, sobbing, with of all things, jealousy.
She writes, "This month the girls would have been seventeen and twenty years old."....
"On the 8th of October, Elise's birthday, my mother rang me at work; she wanted to speak to me on this day. I know that she will also ring on the twentieth." (Mathilde's birthday)
These words strippped away the anesthesia that everyday mundane life confers and I was thrust into the midst of my pain once again. And it was partly because her family remembers her girls birthdays and visits their graves, and mine does not do these things or very rarely.
I have all the letters and cards that people wrote to our family after Kalman's death. But now, 6 1/2 years later, there is only one sister of Kalman who consistently remembers Kalman's birthday and will most often call. No one else calls. In fact, hardly anyone visits the grave unless I fly down to L.A. to visit it myself. This doesn't mean people don't care, but I have to ASK them to care. Please call, please remember, please, please, please.
The fact that Genevieve's mother, the girl's grandmother, calls on their birthdays, 12 years after their deaths, just, well like I said, I was jealous. It got me tied up in knots of grief and feelings of failure. I got a headache and broke out in itchy skin and was snapping at everyone and couldn't bear to hear noise. A sorry condition!
Reading this book is a lot like listening to a mother talk about her loss in a mother's bereavement group. I never knew Mathilde or Elise except through their mother's writing but I have some knowledge of them now, their memories are held in sacred trust in my heart.

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Title	:	The Disappearance
Author	:	Geneviève Jurgensen
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 168 pages
Published	:	June 30th 1999 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Adult. Cultural. France

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Ratings: 4.3 From 141 Users | 25 Reviews

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The lovely language Jurgensen uses to tell us of the utter devastation when both her children die makes this book a superior read. She tells her story through a series of letters written to a friend whom she met after her daughters died. Although each story of loss and grief is unique, there are commonalities to the emotions of grieving, and Jurgensen captures them.

Jane Miller assigned this book and the class divided up on its merits. I said that I cried and I did. Even though the letters that make it up sort of whirl and the fact that they were written is just about it in terms of writing. The class was bored about it and said so. Nonetheless, I did and that is at least a 4 regardless of whether the writing is capable of holding up what happened.

Excellent writing.

I was crying in the first 10 pages. A beautiful story about the loss and devestation a mother experiences when both of her children are killed in a car accident. Your heart breaks right along with her and you find yourself constantly wondering how she is able to go on each day.

Act I of a This American Life episode entitled "Loss" is a reading from this book. It's lovely and devastating all at once.

I've had this book waiting in the eaves, so to speak, for a couple of years, but it was somehow never urgent enough to pick up despite the fact that I really was interested in reading it. It did not disappoint, even after all that time of built-up waiting. It was luminous and poignant, with a wonderful lilt that came from being translated from French; it was not spiritual at all, but it was still fascinating. Fragile, and yet solidly there on paper, it made you wonder about how it came to be

Your heart will shatter. Devastatingly beautiful book. The most loving and mournful story I have ever read.