Breakup: Enduring Divorce - Softcover

Leo Averbach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983182000 ISBN 13: 9780983182009

Publisher: Lexicon Books, 2011

Synopsis

Breakup is a brutally honest and unusual divorce memoir, written as a journal in real time. Averbach's narrative interweaves his ordeal with his psychotherapy in a deeply- reflective, intimate manner. His concomitant process of transformation gives Breakup a far-reaching significance that is quite compelling.

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About the Author

Leo Averbach was born and raised in South Africa, lived on a kibbutz in Israel for 5 years before moving to London.  He was married for 20 years, fathered 3 children and then divorced.  After he remarried, he returned to Israel and now lives in Jerusalem Hills, where he writes and runs a pottery studio.  A few years ago, he decided to resurrect the journal chronicling the breakup of his marriage and recovery that became the basis for his book "Breakup: Enduring Divorce."

From the Back Cover

Forged in divorce hell.
In this compelling and brutally honest memoir Leo Averbach draws you into the cauldron of marital disintegration. Written as a journal in real time, Breakup interweaves the writer's daily ordeal and the couple's ongoing travails with the insights and experience of psychotherapy.
The book chronicles Averbach's struggle to cope with his wife's betrayal and its implications for their family. His first-person narrative, which is confessional and deeply reflective, reveals everything in describing the acrimony and emotions as the marriage falls apart. But what begins as a tale of anguish and despair becomes a story of transformation and regeneration, leading Averbach to a new life.
Breakup is an unusual divorce memoir. Divorce is Breakup's prime concern but what elevates this from a personal account of a common occurrence into a story with wider significance is the upheaval surrounding the breakup. The tragedy of marital disintegration triggers Averbach's soul-searching, forcing him into a process of change, and driving him to seek a resolution. As a series of entries taken directly from the author's diary, Breakup is doubly unusual.

From the Inside Flap

"Leo Averbach has been there...inside the hell of divorce." - David Knox, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University, Marriage and Family Therapist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexicon Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983182000
• ISBN 13: 9780983182009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292