Ten thousand aftershocks, Michelle Tom
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- Fathers + Death -- Biography
- Mental health -- Biography
- Tom, Michelle
- Families -- New Zealand -- Christchurch
- Christchurch Earthquake, N.Z., 2011 -- Personal narratives
- Christchurch (N.Z.) -- History -- 21st century
- Earthquake damage -- New Zealand -- Christchurch
- Brothers and sisters + Death -- Biography
- Biographies
- Earthquakes -- New Zealand -- Christchurch
- Autobiographies
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Biography
- Dysfunctional families -- Biography
- Christchurch (N.Z.) -- History -- 20th century
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Ten thousand aftershocks, Michelle Tom
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references
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autobiography
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Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Ten thousand aftershocks
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bibliography
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Michelle Tom
Summary
After Michelle Tom's house was damaged by a deadly magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2011, she and her young family suffered through another 10,000 aftershocks before finally relocating to the stability of Melbourne, Australia. But soon after arriving, Michelle received the news that her estranged sister was dying. Determined to reconnect before her sister died, Michelle flew home to visit, and memories of childhood flooded back. Told through the five stages of an earthquake via remembered fragments, Michelle Tom explores the similarities between seismic upheaval and her own family's tragedies: her sister's terminal illness, her brother's struggle with schizophrenia and ultimate suicide, the sudden death of her father, her own panic disorder and, through it all, one overarching battle, her lifelong struggle to form a healthy connection with her mother
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