Inroduction Section One: Estrangement due to lingering effects of childhood neglect, abuse, or abandonment
1. Writing of, off, to, and from my mother: Moving forward, word by word
2. Estrangement: A Father/Son Love Story
3. A Series of @!?#@!? Events: A Journey to Mother-Daughter Estrangement Section Two: Estrangement due to family secrets, betrayal, or death
4. Complicating the experience of estranging from a sibling
5. Sister mine: Understanding family estrangement in siblings
6. Blood is thicker than water!
7. Traci(ng) Estrangement: Sisters, Secrets and Suicide Section Three: Estrangement resulting from the search for identity, belonging, or home
8. An Autoethnography of the Ongoing Impact of Parental Divorce and Estrangement
9. Too far out all my life…but not drowning
10. Our Real-Life Matilda Moment: Redefining and Finding Family Section Four: Estrangement initiated by another and out of our hands
11. Writing of(f) family: Sarah’s family hand-me-downs
12. My Mum is a Dreamer: Losing Family but Learning to Love
13. The Roots are Gone Too: An Autoethnography of Estrangement and/in Mourning Conclusion