Split : Stories from a Generation Raised on Divorce

by Ava Chin (Editor)

Essays reflect life in homes with divorced parents, discussing familiar issues such as emotional unavailability on behalf of parents, living with step-parents, and adapting to a new lifestyle after a divorce.

234 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2002

About the author

Ava Chin is the author of the forthcoming MOTT STREET (Penguin Press, April 2023). Her food memoir, "Eating Wildly," was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award 2014 (Food) and named to Library Journal's Best Books of 2014 list (Memoir). The editor of "Split," she's written for the NY Times (as the Urban Forager), the LA Times Magazine, the Village Voice, and SPIN. Before earning an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, and a PhD from the University of Southern California, she was a downtown slam poet who contributed to the alternative rock band Soul Coughing's album El Oso. A professor of creative nonfiction and journalism at the City University of New York, Ava lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.

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Reviews

[Kathryn Levenson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting to read from the children's viewpoints.