From Scarsdale is an evocative and lyrical memoir of a haunted childhood in Scarsdale, New&10;York.&10;With a cancer diagnosis in his early forties, the author is compelled to revisit and resolve the mystery of his family's sadness. The fourth of six children in an Irish-American household distinctly out-of-place in this affluent suburb of New York City, O&8217;Brien grows up in a claustrophobic milieu of secrecy, lies, and mental illness. The turning point in his maturation is an older brother&8217;s attempted suicide - an event he witnesses firsthand.&10;From Scarsdale traces with sensitivity the complex histories and dynamics that lead to this trauma, as O&8217;Brien investigates the psychologies of his parents, themselves the survivors of painful childhoods in Scarsdale.