{"product_id":"a-pot-from-shards-9781949093322","title":"A Pot From Shards","description":"\u003cp\u003eJune 2008, I logged on-line the name of my long-missing father who I barely knew. I believed the only thing of his that was mine, was his name. Something came onto the screen I had never seen before, a blurry facsimile of his death certificate. Some of it was legible. He died in San Francisco in 1970. That was a complete surprise. There was clearly more information on the screen image, but I couldn't make it out. Writing to the California Board of Health I requested a paper copy. They needed to know my relationship to the deceased. Writing in the word daughter in relation to my father was a unique experience. The paper certificate soon arrived. Everything on the document other than the date of his birth and his profession was a surprise. Suddenly I owned more than his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a parent goes missing how do we shape and fill the empty space?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd how do we shape and create ourselves from our missing parents?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Pot from Shards, a memoir, explores absence, imagination, movement, dance, language, psychoanalysis, love, death and the creation of a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWexler, Joan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Joan Wexler is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst on the faculty of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis in New Haven, Connecticut","brand":"Ipbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874124337426,"sku":"9781949093322","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3eea287e-7bec-4d84-8590-b86285f936f5.jpg?v=1737983890","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-pot-from-shards-9781949093322","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}