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Annie's ghosts : a journey into a family secret / Steve Luxenberg.

by Luxenberg, Steve.

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New York : Hyperion, c2009.

Luxenberg, Steve -- Family.

Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Case studies.

Mothers and sons -- United States -- Case studies.

Sisters -- Family relationships -- United States -- Case studies.

Inmates of institutions -- Family relationships -- Michigan -- Case studies.

Family secrets -- Case studies.

401 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Spring 1995 -- Spring 2000 -- Looking for Mom -- The Rosetta Stone -- Unlocking the door -- Missing pieces -- Actually insane -- Welcome to Eloise -- I am family -- Lost and found -- Castles in the air -- The old neighborhood -- The cigar laborer -- Invisible -- One of the thousands -- The ghosts of Radziwillow -- Abandoned -- Dad's secret -- Uncontoured ills -- Always the bridesmaid -- Reinterpretation.

Traces the author's surprise discovery that his late mother had had a sister who was sent away under mysterious circumstances and never mentioned by the family again, his efforts to research his long-lost aunt's story and whereabouts, and his struggles to understand the secrecy of her existence.

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