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Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth

Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth

Hertzel, Laurie

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralDeath & Dying

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1517920787
ISBN13: 9781517920784
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Mar 31 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

An open, frank rumination on a brother's death and its reverberations throughout a family

Every family has its stories and secrets. Laurie Hertzel's family had more than its share. At an early age, Laurie, the seventh of the ten Hertzel children, took on the challenge of sorting them out. Not old enough to be one of the Big Kids, yet too old to be with the Three Little Kids, she spent most of her time alone, reading, wandering, and observing her family as they moved around her in their house in Duluth. Though her parents were not warm, there were moments of closeness in those years--gifts of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books and special trips to the dairy for a sundae--but everything shattered after the sudden death of Laurie's oldest sibling, eighteen-year-old Bobby, when she was just nine years old.

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