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Jacque Gorelick

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Jacque’s essays about family, motherhood, estrangement, education, and health have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Times, Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Healthy Women, The Washington Post, HuffPost and more.

After spending her fractured childhood in search of home and belonging, Jacque spent her adult life working with children and families. She has a degree in psychology and a graduate degree in education with an emphasis in early childhood development. She has always been fascinated with how family shapes and defines us, and how we ultimately choose to define it for ourselves.

A California native, Jacque has lived all over the West Coast from Santa Barbara to Alaska. Now firmly ...more

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Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home

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This Incredible Longing

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Camouflage is an honest and personal look at what it’s like to try to hold a marriage together under the unique demands of military life. With compelling and intimate prose, Sweeney examines the ripple effect of deployment and frequent relocation on ...more
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