My Brother Peter

By Nomi Berger

In 1968, nineteen-year-old Peter David Berger was found with a knife in his heart, dead in the bedroom of a friend's house in Montreal. The police dismissed him as a hippie and his death was ruled an LSD-induced suicide. Nomi Berger was twenty-three when her brother died, and she spent the next twenty-seven years running from his ghost and attempting to exorcise it through her poetry and fiction. Then, in 1995, she suddenly stopped running and decided to re-open her past's deepest, unhealed wound. She set out to uncover the truth about her brother -- and about herself.My Brother Peter is the story of Nomi Berger's Journey to reclaim the brother she lost, and to purge herself of her own, powerful guilt. This book will shock the reader, and tear at the heart, for it is an exquisitely poignant testament to love, obsession and liberation, and a cautionary tale as well, a look back at the sixties, when so many of a generation's best and brightest lost their way in the Garden.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552070107
• ISBN13: 9781552070109
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Robert Davies Pub
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

a very moving account of love loss and ultimately healing

MY BROTHER PETER by Nomi Berger ISBN #1552070107 "My brother Peter" should be a simple enough phrase to enunciate, but not so for Nomi Berger. For twenty-seven years she could not refer to her deceased brother by name. This book is her moving account of her own year-long investigation into the suspicious death of her then 19 year old beloved brother Peter. Was it murder or was it suicide? Why could she not have access to reports on his death? A very personable and intelligent young man, Peter dropped out of Bishop's University and became involved in drugs on the streets of Montreal. He renounced his mid- to upper- class background as the son of a prominent attorney to seek out the idealistic life as a "flower child" of the sixties. This book gives an excellent view of that decade "when many of a generation's best and brightest lost their way in the Garden." This account is a very moving story of love, loss, and ultimately of healing for the author. It is of particular interest to those of us who grew up in those times. Submitted by Sharon Beauregard Kingston ON Canada