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Disaster Falls : A Family Story by Gerson, Stephane is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

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In this piercing memoir, a father maps the contours of his grief and explores how his family navigates the unthinkable loss of eight-year-old Owen. On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stéphane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stéphane huddled in a tent with his wife, Alison, and their older son, Julian, trying to understand what seemed inconceivable. "It's just the three of us now," Alison said over the sounds of a light rain and, nearby, the rushing river. "We cannot do it alone. We have to stick together." Disaster Falls chronicles the aftermath of that day and their shared determination to stay true to Alison's resolution. Gerson captures the different ways of grieving that threatened to isolate each of them in their post-Owen worlds and then, with beautiful specificity, shows how he and Alison preserved and reconfigured their...

Who reads Disaster Falls : A Family Story?

Author

Gerson, Stephane

Publisher

Crown/Archetype

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101906705

Category

self-help

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Psychology

Rating

3.85 / 5 (277 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14