Otherwise, I'm Fine
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Otherwise, I'm Fine

A Memoir

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Otherwise, I'm Fine

A Memoir

About this book

A daughter's story of unresolved grief and a family's hard-won healing

When her husband Bill died in 1969, Tina Presnell gathered her three children. "We won't talk about this," she said. "It will be easier that way." Thus began, in the Presnell family, a decades-long period of silence and intense, isolated grieving for this ordinary man.

In 2012, several years after her mother's death, Barbara Presnell recovered her father's World War II belongings: a scrapbook, news clippings, documents, and letters. Recalling how much his war experiences had meant to him, Barbara, along with her estranged brother and sister, planned a journey to travel their father's route through Europe. From Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, to the western bank of the Elbe River in Magdeburg, Germany, the siblings would follow the movements of their father's division and rediscover his stories, share memories, and renew family bonds.

In Otherwise, I'm Fine, Presnell tells the story of her grief and, across her tour of western Europe, the breakthroughs that released her from recurring depression, resolved her conflicted grief for her mother, and returned her beloved father to her and her siblings as a living memory.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Otherwise, I’m Fine
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. contents
  7. prologue
  8. chapter 1
  9. chapter 2
  10. chapter 3
  11. chapter 4
  12. chapter 5
  13. chapter 6
  14. chapter 7
  15. chapter 8
  16. chapter 9
  17. chapter 10
  18. chapter 11
  19. chapter 12
  20. chapter 13
  21. chapter 14
  22. chapter 15
  23. chapter 16
  24. chapter 17
  25. chapter 18
  26. chapter 19
  27. chapter 20
  28. chapter 21
  29. chapter 22
  30. chapter 23
  31. chapter 24
  32. chapter 25
  33. chapter 26
  34. chapter 27
  35. chapter 28
  36. chapter 29
  37. chapter 30
  38. epilogue
  39. acknowledgments