Farrago - Roberts, Diana B.
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Farrago, from the Latin farragin, is a word that means a confused mixture. This memoir, sharing the story of the relationship between author Diana B. Roberts and her mother, Markie, is just that-a farrago, containing neither positive nor negative judgment. Markie Byron Roberts was eighty-five years old when she passed away-a long life for anyone, but particularly for a woman who'd been institutionalized for mental illness six times, beginning at age sixteen, and who had been unwillingly subjected to thirty-six shock therapy treatments. Through mental and physical illness, on her death bed and…mehr

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Farrago, from the Latin farragin, is a word that means a confused mixture. This memoir, sharing the story of the relationship between author Diana B. Roberts and her mother, Markie, is just that-a farrago, containing neither positive nor negative judgment. Markie Byron Roberts was eighty-five years old when she passed away-a long life for anyone, but particularly for a woman who'd been institutionalized for mental illness six times, beginning at age sixteen, and who had been unwillingly subjected to thirty-six shock therapy treatments. Through mental and physical illness, on her death bed and throughout her life, she maintained a personal sense of style reminiscent of her long bygone life. In the end she went quietly, politely, and silently to the other side, leaving her children to wonder what her life, and their lives,might have been like if she had been with them all along. A victim of mental illness and the wounding loss of her family's place in society, Markie became incapable of raising her three children. For many years the lingering effects of the brief years she spent with Markie Created shadow over Diana's life, a kind of aura of both the presence and absence of her mother. Finally healed after a lifetime of uncertainty and ready to help shed light on the needs of survivors of parental mental illness, author Diana B. Roberts details life with and without-her mother. This is their story.
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Diana B. Roberts, known as Dina, has been a professional fundraiser for more than three decades. She has held positions of responsibility for a number of prominent non-profit institutions in Boston, including The Boys & Girls Club of Boston, The YMCA of Greater Boston, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Gore Place Society, and Milton Academy, of which she is a graduate. Earlier, she served as a speech writer in the Federal Government in Washington, D.C.; feature editor of the Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo's largest English newspaper; and as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in Tunisia, North Africa. Diana holds a BA in communications from Drake University. She studied literary criticism in grad school at Hunter College. Diana and her husband, Bob Bray, share five children and four grandchildren and live in Diana's hometown, Milton, Massachusetts.