@article{290444,
      recid = {290444},
      author = {DeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth.},
      title = {The empty room : surviving the loss of a brother or sister  at any age /},
      publisher = {Scribner},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {229 p. ;},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {Ted is Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn's older brother, best  friend, and the "ringmaster of her days." On a September  morning when she is six, she wakes up and Ted is gone. Her  parents explain that he went to the hospital for a while.  "A while" turns out to be eight years in a plastic bubble,  where he dies of a rare autoimmune disease at age  seventeen. The Empty Room is DeVita-Raeburn's unflinching,  often haunting recollection of life with Ted, woven into a  larger exploration of the enormous -- and often  unacknowledged -- impact of a sister's or brother's death  on remaining siblings. With an inspired blend of life  experience, journalistic acumen, and research training,  DeVita-Raeburn draws on interviews of more than two hundred  survivors to render a powerful portrait of the range of  conditions and emotions, from withdrawal to guilt to rage,  that attend such loss. Finding little in professional  literature, she realizes that those who suffer are the  experts. And in the end, it is DeVita-Raeburn and her  experts who present a larger, more complex understanding of  the sibling bond, the lifelong impact of the severing of  that bond, and the tools needed to heal and move forward.  The Empty Room is a fascinating literary hybrid in which  Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn seamlessly fuses deeply affecting  remembrance with a pragmatic, lucidly written exploration  of the healing journey.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/290444},
}