• Confirmed announcement and promotion of book by Maine Writers and
Publishers Alliance.
• Confirmed blurb from Susan Conley, author of The Foremost Good
Fortune.
• Promotion via Facebook platform, both on author’s own page and
other pages she is a member of (including Mothers Always Write and
Brain Child).
• Book event in collaboration with The Center for Grieving Children
to take place in Portland, Maine.
• Book events to take place in New York City, Los Angeles, and
Chicago.
• Author will use her connections from the Maine Medical Center
psychiatry residency training program, the Maine Board of
Examiners, and The Collaborate School to promote the book.
Mary E. Plouffe, PhD is a clinical psychologist with thirty-five years of experience as a clinician, teacher, and consultant. She has served on the faculty of Maine Medical Center psychiatry residency training program, the Maine Board of Examiners, and The Collaborate School, and has provided consultation to school and courts. Her essays have been published by NPR, On the Issues Magazine, Brain, Child Magazine, Survivor Review, and Mothers Always Write. Find additional information at www.maryeplouffeauthor.com .
The Independent Publisher Of New England 2018 Book of the Year (
November 2018)
2018 Foreword Indies Finalist in Adult Nonfiction—Grief &
Grieving
2018 Readers' Favorites Book Awards Honorable Mention in
Non-Fiction—Grief/Hardship
2017 Living Now Awards Silver Medal Winner in Inspirational Memoir,
Female
2017-2018 Sarton Women's Book Award Finalist in Memoir
2017 International Book Awards Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir
"A remarkable, empathetic, and intense exploration of the nature of
grief and guilt, featuring searing personal insights as well as
cleareyed professionalism.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“I wish this book had existed decades ago, to help adults
understand how children navigate grief during and after a parent’s
death. Kudos to Mary Plouffe, Ph.D. not just for writing this book
about the aftermath of her sister’s death, but also for helping her
niece adjust to the absence from ages 3-15 and beyond. This is an
important addition to the children’s bereavement field. Highly
recommended.”
—Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters
"A beautiful, courageously honest book . . . In I Know It in My
Heart, Dr. Plouffe, a clinical psychologist, masterfully
interweaves her own grief for her sister’s death with her niece’s,
while educating readers as to the emotional and psychological
nature of adult and childhood loss. A must-read page-turner:
Profound, insightful, and exquisitely written."
—Virginia A. Simpson, Ph.D., FT, Bereavement Care Specialist,
founder of The Mourning Star Center for Grieving Children, and
author of The Space Between: A Memoir of Mother-Daughter Love at
the End of Life
"Because we are mortal, love always turns to grief; but honest
remembering, of the kind Mary Plouffe does here, restores it to its
true nature. As a therapist, Plouffe understands the difficult
pathways of mourning; as a sister, she has had to walk them in
sorrow and wonder; as a writer, she has depicted the terrain with a
power and beauty that will make I Know It in My Heart a
classic."
— Richard Hoffman, author of Half the House and Love & Fury
"Mary Plouffe has written an achingly beautiful family guide to
loss and healing. This is a story that will make a difference, told
with grace and wit and the keen understanding of a sister's grief
and a child's capacity for hope.”
—Susan Conley, author of The Foremost Good Fortune, Paris was the
Place, Stop Here, This is the Place
“In a profound yet simple way, Mary Plouffe gives us a compelling
personal story of grieving—of her sister's diagnosis, then caring
for her little niece, her own family, and herself, then loss, and
then on to healing. Her evident experience as a psychologist adds
authority to a universal story in a deep and tender way . . . a
noteworthy, compassionate companion, eloquent and reassuring.”
—Anne Lynch, Director, Maine Center for Grieving Children
“Mary Plouffe’s love for her late sister lives on in the close
relationship she built with her niece after their mutual great
loss, just as it lives on in I Know it in My Heart, a book that so
poignantly bows to the often-unacknowledged pain suffered by a
grieving sibling, and the life-altering loss experienced by a young
child.”
—Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Songs from a Lead Lined Room,
This is Paradise, and Sundays in America
“A searing, beautifully written story of unfathomable grief and
unbreakable family bonds. If you are a human being, read this.”
—Monica Wood, author of When We Were the Kennedys and The
One-in-a-Million Boy
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