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The perfect other : a memoir of my sister / Kyleigh Leddy.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection RC514 .L355 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leddy, Kyleigh, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leddy, Kaitlyn.
- Leddy, Kyleigh.
- Sisters.
- Schizophrenics--Family relationships.
- Schizophrenics.
- Absence and presumption of death.
- Sisters--Death.
- Grief.
- Siblings.
- sisters (siblings).
- grief.
- Medical Subjects:
- Siblings.
- Grief.
- Genre:
- Autobiography.
- Biography.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 290 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
- Summary:
- "All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world. As they grew, however, and as Kait entered adolescence, her personality began to change. She was lashing out emotionally and physically, and losing touch with reality in certain ways. The family struggled to keep this side of Kait private--at school and in her social life, she was still the gorgeous, effervescent life of the party with a modeling career ahead of her and big dreams. But slowly, things began to shatter, and Kyleigh could only watch in horror as her perfect sibling's world collapsed around her. Kait was institutionalized with what would eventually be diagnosed as schizophrenia, leaving Kyleigh and their mother to handle the burden, shame, and guilt alone. Then, in January 2014, Kait disappeared. Though they never found her body, security footage showed her making her way onto a big bridge over a river, where it is presumed that she jumped. Kyleigh is left wondering: What could she have done differently? How could this shining light be gone? And how will she find peace without her sister to guide her way there?"--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780358469346
- 0358469341
- OCLC:
- 1290200598
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