Myerson

Myerson is the same orthopedic surgeon who operated on Terrell Owens before he suited up for the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005.

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Myerson is a relatively well-known novelist and journalist with a healthy literary reputation, but this publication has certainly been one to bring damnation on her head.

The Lost Child « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Life is too short to research things like this but as I recall Myerson's campaign eventually melted down not because she lacked poise or intelligence but because--despite her intelligence and poise--she had a total bimbo relationship with some low life....

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Myerson was conducting her research into the Yelloly family while her own was in meltdown, and it became impossible for her to tell the one story without also telling the other.

The Lost Child « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Recently there has been uproar in the media concerning a book, The Lost Child, written by Julie Myerson about her teenage son and his problem with drugs.

The Lost Child « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

The problem is that Myerson simply does not find out enough about the family for them to become truly interesting.

The Lost Child « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Technically, I think the idea of intertwining the two stories is an excellent one, but for me, this part of the narrative was so thin and insubstantial compared to the emotionally-charged account of her son (and the equally gripping memories Myerson recalls from her own troubled childhood) that I found myself skipping it.

The Lost Child « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

At least one half, if not a little more, is the story of Mary Yelloly, an eighteenth century woman whose drawings captivate Myerson when she comes across them by chance When she finds out that Mary died of consumption at the age of twenty-one, she starts to research the family and discovers that only three of the nine siblings survived the curse of tuberculosis.

The Lost Child « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

It would have been better for me if Myerson had written it having put together a more coherent portrait of the Yelloly family, and having passed beyond the exquisitely painful rupture with her son.

The Lost Child « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

But I do think, for all its detractors, that there are many mothers out there, going through the same thing, who will be relieved and comforted that Myerson wrote this and who will find in it a bond of solidarity on a family experience that is widespread, but oddly taboo.

The Lost Child « Tales from the Reading Room 2009