Making Toast: A Family Story
Publisher
Ecco
Publication Year
2010
ISBN
9780061825934
Pages
166 pages
Genre
memoir
Format
full length
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
When his daughter, Amy, collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition, Rosenblatt and his wife leave their home on Long Island to move in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. He peels back the layers on this most personal of losses to create a testament to familial love.
Grade Level
9-12; Adult
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Family member death; Kinship care; death of a mother; death of a daughter; grandparents living with grandchildren; grandparents looking after grandchildren
Main Character
adult male
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
multigenerational
Keywords
doctor; surgeon; teacher; grief; parenting; hospital; aftermath; nicknames
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Rosenblatt, Roger, "Making Toast: A Family Story" (2010). Diverse Families. 1550.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1550