Four Corners A Practical Memoir About Siblings Grief And Learning How To Carry On Without Letting Go Erin Leigh Nigh by Erin Leigh Nigh 9781777832308, 1777832306 instant download after payment.

"Siblings can be so many different things for one another: friends, enemies, heroes, antagonizers, allies, teachers, defenders, competitors, advocates, path-breakers. I can't describe who I am without talking about my siblings.

They've made me the person I am.

They're a part of me.

There is so much that we lost when my brother died, but I can't lose any of that."

When her younger brother died at the age of nineteen, Erin turned to books both as a refuge and out of a desire to learn how others reconciled their own grief with the pressure to keep moving forward. She found a distinct thread in the stories of siblings: that the impact of a sibling's death can go unacknowledged and misunderstood, and the nature of sibling relationships can affect our perceived right to grieve.
Four Corners is a reflection on the complicated emotions that can characterize grief, the unique bond that ties us to our siblings, and the exploration of healing as a practice...