The Hard Questions For Adult Children and Their Aging Parents: 100 Essential Questions For Facing The Future ... [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Susan Piver (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 23, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0786276800 | ISBN-13: 978-0786276806 | Edition: 1

A New York Times Bestselling Author

Witnessing the declining health of a parent can take a heavy toll. Often it's awkward to communicate fears and needs to one another. Here Susan Piver applies her thought-provoking question-and-answer format to help us take responsibility, soften boundaries, and minimize regret.

Editorial Reviews

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"Susan Piver's new book helps us face important realities with gentleness and courage."
-- Andrew Weil, M. D.

About the Author

Susan Piver is the author of The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say “I Do,” which spent nine weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and The Hard Questions for an Authentic Life (Gotham, January 2004). She is frequently featured in the media, including appearances on Oprah and the Today show. She is also the founder and creative director of Padma Media, producing special book packages for bestselling authors. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 189 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press; 1 edition (June 23, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786276800
• ISBN-13: 978-0786276806
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,646,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan Piver is the New York Times bestselling author of six books, including The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do" and the award-winning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life, chosen as best spiritual book of 2007 by Books for a Better Life.

Piver teaches internationally on love, creativity, meditation, and spirituality for actual humans with relationships, jobs, deep yearnings, depressions, triumphs, bad hair days, and a multitude of ridiculously petty grievances. She teaches from personal experience.

Piver has been a practicing Buddhist since 1995 and graduated from a Buddhist seminary in 2004.

Her new book is The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: An Uncommon Guide to Healing, Insight, and Love, published by Simon and Schuster in January 2010.

Piver has written for Body and Soul, SELF, Oprah magazine, Buddhadharma, and the Shambhala Sun and is regularly featured in the media, including appearances on Oprah, Today, The Tyra Banks show, CNN, and in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Money, and others.

For more information, visit susanpiver.com.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best, January 28, 2008

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John G. Tomlinson (Baton Rouge, LA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Hard Questions For Adult Children And Their Aging Parents: 100 Essential Questions For Facing The Future Together, with Courage and Compassion (Hardcover)

This book is more helpful for people dealing with family issues when trying to plan long-term care. It was not very helpful for me as I had gained similar information already from other books that also including practical information about planning long-term care. It really is just a list of questions with a brief intro to each topic. Given the inexpensive price, I do not regret buying it, but I only got one or two ideas from it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard Questions for Adult Children, April 9, 2007

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C. Reed (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hard Questions For Adult Children and Their Aging Parents (Hardcover)

Great starting place for difficult discussions. Many topics that one doesn't always think to ask about.

14 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Making life a little easier...one question at a time., October 14, 2004

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Tess Harding (LA CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hard Questions For Adult Children and Their Aging Parents (Hardcover)

Susan Piver provides a great service to all of us--especially Baby Boomers who now must face life's great challenge: the death of parents--and eventually ourselves.

Piver's previous books seem like a natural lead-in to this her newest book. She shows us how to face the facts of life--and death--with integrity and wisdom.

An important book to have--and share with friends and family.