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Blood Flow is a journey set in motion by the suicide of Larry Bograd’s physician father, just two weeks after Larry's bar mitzvah. In the decades that follow, Larry interviews relatives and friends of his father, Nathan, determined to understand the life and death of the man he had only…
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"While we can't completely escape trauma, we can productively integrate it into our lives." —author Larry Bograd
It was the eve of thirteen-year-old Larry's bar mitzvah... and the eve that his doctor father snuck into the family bathroom and hung himself. Grief entwines families in many secrets, and Larry spent the next forty years unmasking them.
I’ve known this author from when he was a young professor, and I was one of his literature students at MSU in Denver, Colorado. What I hadn’t known then was the quiet trauma that haunted him throughout his youth with the baffling question of…
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