These Summer Months: Stories from The Late Orphan Project

Writers from Japan, Mexico, Canada, and many locations in the United States share their very personal experiences after the death of their parents. The second volume of stories from The Late Orphan Project, These Summer Months will shock you, speak to your relationship with your parents, and remind you how, even though we come from so many different places, when our parents die, we are all just children, experiencing a long season of personal grief. It is a haunting celebration of real life. Poetry, essays, journal entries, letters - each writer telling his or her story. Grief is a season - and seasons change and recur. It's a season referred to here as "these summer months."