Edited by Anne McCracken & Mary Semel

This remarkable collection of stories and comforting essays shows how scores of literate people--famous and ordinary--first endured and then rebuilt their lives after the death of a child. The precision of the writers' language to explain their experiences offers real companionship to those whose journey through grief needs "more sustenance than inspiration."

Chosen writers are mostly contemporary and English-speaking. However there are others, such as Isabel Allende, Sophocles, Camus, Jan Kochanowski, W.E.B.Du Bois and Tagore, among those testifying to the shock, despair, rage, alienation and disorientation of this particular grief.

Highly Recommended.

Paperback, 291 pages.