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Book Review: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief., Virginia B. Schelbert
Book Review: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief., Virginia B. Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The author, Professor of Family Social Services at the University of Minnesota, is the daughter of the late Paul and of Verena Magdalena Grossenbacher, born Elmer. Her father was a native of Burgdorf, Canton Bern, and had been a main promoter of New Glarus' Swiss American institutions. 3 Thus Dr. Boss begins her book with a personal narrative which describes growing up with the effects of the immigrant experience on family members. Her people had left their homeland Switzerland and many beloved relatives in the early 1900' s for life in the American Midwest, only to encounter yearning, homesickness, and …