Don't Tell: Family Secrets

Donna McCart Sharkey and Arleen Paré, sisters and writers, have co-edited an anthology Don't Tell: Family Secrets, about what may be hidden in families. For each individual, even in the same family, what is secret and what is not, may be different. In Don't Tell: Family Secrets, fifty-nine writers tell their stories in either prose or poetry, of their own family secrets. So often, mothers bear the burden, stand over time as the keepers of these secrets, trying to keep families intact. Spanning continents, cultures, wars, belief systems, and the private lives of families, the secrets in this book range from over one hundred years ago to the present and include stories--some serious, others quirky, some resolved, and still others that remain a mystery.

Author: Donna McCart Sharkey
Publisher: Demeter Press
Published: 01/25/2023
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781772584240
ISBN10: 177258424X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays

About the Author
Donna McCart Sharkey grew up in Montreal and now lives in Ottawa. Her most recent books are Falling Together: A Family's Memoir of Mental Illness and Grief and Always With Me: Parents Talk About the Death of a Child. She is a former professor at the State University of New York and her research has been published in numerous academic journals.