A study of the father-daughter relationship focuses on the attitudes, experiences, and feelings of women who have lost their fathers--through death, divorce, or emotional abandonment--at an early age

Father Loss

Politics & Social Sciences

Wakerman, Elyce

Social Sciences

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Air Powered: The Art of the Airbrush

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A lie is the only thing that can get twenty-year-old Harry Himelbaum past the cold scrutiny of Ellis Island’s immigration official, Will Brown. A lie that locks them in a deadly battle. It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad, the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the other” has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland, and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy, and to send for the wife and child he must deny having. But Will Brown stands in the way. Will is a young, zealously patriotic Iowa lawyer, who has dedicated himself to staunchly upholding the nation’s laws and keeping his America pure. Little does he expect that his childhood sweetheart and new wife, Barbara, would form a romantic attachment for Harry, the man he’s sworn to keep out. Based on the true story of the author’s father, this heart-wrenching clash of love and loyalties is a picture of an America torn between being a symbol of hope for immigrants and a proud nation fighting to re-create itself. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

A Tale of Two Citizens: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Yucca

"I found this book very meaningful. It moved me, and I recommend it to any woman who thinks of her father as the man that got away." –Barbra Streisand As Elyce Wakerman found in the scores of interviews she conducted, the loss of a father— through death, divorce, or abandonment—is the event that shapes a girl’s life and all her future relationships. “In my fantasy,” one woman commented, “he remains the perfect, all-giving man”—a difficult role for any other man to fill. Based partly on the author’s experience, partly on her in-depth interviews, and partly on a questionnaire she developed with psychologist Holly Barrett to which almost six hundred women responded, Father Loss provides the clearest portrait yet of a very special group of women. Chapters include: <ul>
<li>A Subject I Can Speak of: “My Father Died When I Was Three”</li>
<li>A Subject of Research: The Father-Daughter Relationship</li>
<li>A Parody of Incest: Women Who Never Knew Their Fathers</li>
<li>A Face Not Even a Father Could Love: Daughters of Paternal Suicide</li>
<li>My Mother—the Widow, the Divorcée—Myself: Mother as Head of the Household</li>
<li>Make Room for the New Daddy: Stepfathers</li>
<li>It’s the Child That Makes the Woman: Self-image and Others</li>
<li>A Match Made in Heaven…or Elsewhere: Attitudes Toward Marriage and the Family</li>
<li>Women with Wounds That Will Not Heal</li>
<li>And more!</li>
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 As a group, they express their insecurities (“Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever be able to love a man totally . . . because that would mean I didn’t love my father anymore.” —Leslie). Yet individually, many have become outstanding achievers, including Eleanor Roosevelt (“He dominated my life as long as he lived and was the love of my life for years after he died.”), Helen Gurney Brown (“People in business, my bosses, I look to them all as fathers.”), Barbara Streisand, Gloria Steinem, Geraldine Ferraro and many others. A bestseller when it was first published twenty-five years ago and now updated and revised, Father Loss gives information and insight to fatherless daughters, to widows and divorcees with daughters, and to every father who needs to understand the vital role he plays in his daughter’s life—as the first man she ever loves.

Father Loss: Daughters Discuss Life, Love, and Why Losing a Dad Means So Much

Biographies & Memoirs

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