![]() The fact that the author is able to be so open about his thoughts and feelings (even those that might be hard to admit) is what makes this memoir worth consideration. This is an emotional and often insightful book that is both heartrending and ultimately bittersweet. He eventually refocused his life's purpose to bring moments of happiness and laughter to other children. Fortunately, he was able recover the drive to live beyond his children's deaths. In his moving, new memoir, Don't Cry, Pappa, Gunnar Skollingsberg chronicles his journey from devastating, suicidal depression to tentative, fragile healing. For this author, this ultimate nightmare has come true t once, but twice a tragic car accident took the life of his two year-old son, and - many years later - his 15 year-old daughter drowned while on a camping trip. Parents live in perpetual, subconscious fear of losing a child. This little baby boy became the joy and purpose of Gunnar's life. He later developed a persistent, profound depression which was only alleviated upon the birth of his first child. The youngest child of a Norwegian immigrant family to the United States, Gunnar grew up with feelings of alienation and loneliness. ![]()
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