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Publisher:
Infinity Publishing.com |
Release
Date: May 2003 |
ISBN:
0741414368 |
Awards:
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Format
Reviewed: Paperback |
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Genre:
Non-Fiction / Memoir |
Reviewed:
2003 |
Reviewer:
Jen Oliver |
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Question
the Silhouettes
AIDS
and a Family in Crisis
By Norma
A. Burdett, R.N, as told to Thomas F. Dwyer, Ed.D.
Question
the Silhouettes takes a poignant and personal look at one family
dealing with acceptance and eventually grieving for their son and
brother. This is the story of the Burdett family. Jimmy Burdett,
the son of Norma Burdett and her husband, announces to his somewhat
conservative family that he is gay and first has to deal with trying
to have his family accept him. Then, he eventually developed AIDS
and passed away. During those difficult years, Jimmy and his family
had to deal with the everyday struggle of outside people not understanding
the deadly disease of AIDS.
The
writing in Question the Silhouettes shows how AIDS afflicted
the Burdett family personally. The writing clearly shows how the
family felt at all different aspects of Jimmy's disease and their
own feelings of trying to deal with Jimmy's sexuality and eventual
death.
This
reader congratulates Ms. Burdett and the rest of her family for
coming forward and telling the story of Jimmy. This reader feels
that many families that are currently dealing with these issues
can gain something from seeing what the Burdett family did and through
the love that they felt for Jimmy.
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