Description:
The Empty Envelope is what happens when a single, hidden fact detonates across generations-and two seasoned clinicians decide to follow the evidence wherever it leads.
Brief description: Rhona S. Weinstein, professor of psychology emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of the award-winning book Reaching Higher: The Power of Expectations in Schooling (Harvard University Press, 2002, 2004) and co-editor of Achieving College Dreams (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Review Quotes:
"Poignant, at times breathtaking, The Empty Envelope is profound, moving, and deeply relatable in today's world."
-Stephen P. Hinshaw, author of the award-winning Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
"Only when we are able to reconstruct the past can we more fully live in the present."
-Stacy Friedman, Senior Rabbi and creator of the Congregation Rodef Sholom REAL Mental Health Initiative
"This volume can be read as a profound reminder that adversity, albeit ever looming, can be overcome, even if it takes several generations to realize positive outcomes."
-Ross D. Parke, co-editor of Children in a Changing World: Sociocultural and Temporal Perspectives
"Family archeology at its best-sensitive, self-reflexive, and very well written."
-Diane L. Wolf, author of Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland
"The letters and material found make this not only a compelling family story but also an important historical one."
-Paula S. Fass, author of Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second-Generation Memoir