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Reading Guides

Discussion guides, classroom resources, and professional-use information for Amanda LaPera’s memoirs and fiction.

Reading Guides

Use these guides for book clubs, classrooms, libraries, and thoughtful individual reading. On this page, each book cover links directly to its reading-guide page.

Memoirs in Professional Settings

For Education, Training, and Professional Discussion

Losing Dad and Finding Dad may be useful for conversations around mental illness, caregiving, anosognosia, family systems, grief, community response, and the lived experience of loving someone with serious mental illness.

  • medical humanities
  • mental health education
  • caregiver education
  • law enforcement and community response training
  • social work, psychology, nursing, and medical education
  • professional organizations, speaking events, and facilitated discussion

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