In this unique podcast, Ali-John conducts the first extensive interview with author Fern Schumer Chapman about her new book, Brothers, Sisters, Strangers: Sibling Estrangement and the Road the Reconciliation. Ali-John offers a brief introduction to Fern's background as an author, speaker, and educator. Then, the two discuss the book, which probes a forty-year estrangement between Fern and her only brother and examines how the two found a tentative path to reconciliation. Fern's book, which is part memoir and part social science research, also captures the voices of others who suffer from the shrouded, stigmatized experience of sibling alienation. This book, a much-needed resource (along with Ali-John's online support groups), offers estranged siblings help in mending familial fences and navigating this hidden epidemic.

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