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Summary: Simple and beautiful
Review: A lovely and valuable book. In the glimpses of her children that Ms. Jurgensen gives us in an effort to have us know what was lost, anyone who has ever loved a child must see and feel that child -the little chubby hand in yours, the legs wrapped tight around your waist. This book also gave me much to think about on the subject of compassion - for those you care about as well as those you see in passing and will likely never see again. This book looks a parent's worst nightmare full in the face, so is not for everyone. But your openness to the wrenching pain of this story will reward you with the realization that, woven throughout this nightmare of sadness and loss is hope, survival, love, connection and happiness. Nightmare though it is, it's a beautiful thing.
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Summary: Simple and beautiful
Review: A lovely and valuable book. In the glimpses of her children that Ms. Jurgensen gives us in an effort to have us know what was lost, anyone who has ever loved a child must see and feel that child -the little chubby hand in yours, the legs wrapped tight around your waist. This book also gave me much to think about on the subject of compassion - for those you care about as well as those you see in passing and will likely never see again. This book looks a parent's worst nightmare full in the face, so is not for everyone. But your openness to the wrenching pain of this story will reward you with the realization that, woven throughout this nightmare of sadness and loss is hope, survival, love, connection and happiness. Nightmare though it is, it's a beautiful thing.
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Summary: devastatingly beautiful
Review: After hearing this author read her own work on NPR I was hooked-I had to read it. Tightly woven within this brutally honest portrayal of just how a mother copes after losing her two children was the painful realization that one simply has no choice. While it was at times very difficult to take in just how much the death of a child must affect a parent, I could not put this book down. I found myself thinking what a good mother this woman must be to the two children she now has. Indeed she has made no attempt to hide the fact that the ones she lost through tragic circumstance existed and she aptly illustrates the importance of keeping the memory of loved ones alive by continuing to make your life with them a part of the present. Any empathetic person who wishes to try to grasp the pain of another's grief would benefit from this book. The knowledge gained this mother's excruciating experience can surely help someone out there....
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Summary: After September 11, 2001....
Review: On Friday, September 21, as I was driving listening to Ira Glass's This American Life on National Public Radio, a lengthy portion of this book was read. I had to pull over to the side of the road, unable to continue until it was finished. For those of us so far away from the site of last week's horror, connected only through television, radio, and print, it has been hard to move from the numbers to the names to the lives of all those lost. Our prayers have been frequent and our thoughts constant but we have still been removed. This helped me and I hope it will help us all.
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Summary: an excellent book for thos experiencing the loss of a child
Review: Somewhat difficult to read due to the translation of a very alliterative book, but worth the effort. You can feel her pain and emptiness. You can also understand the healing, but constancy and ever presence of her loss.
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Summary: 'Tears In Heaven ..."
Review: Twelve years after her two young children, Mathilde and Elise, were mercilessly slain at the hands of a drunk driver, Genevieve Jurgensen continued to complete the process of healing through her writing. Initially, she was overwhelmed, unable even to view their bodies and send them on their way ... "Wherever they went, they went alone." Would she ever, ever come to life again? Genevieve gives us a glimpse into her many hopes, fears and anguish through her letters. After the passage of many years and the addition of two more children she appears to have brought her life full circle only to discover the happiness once again that was always there. 'Time can bring you down, bring you what you need, Time can break your heart, make you beg and plead' (Eric Clapton) Time has enabled us the opportunity for Genevieve Jurgensen to share with us her most personal thoughts, feelings and grief.
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