Your Father's Voice : Letters for Emmy About Life with Jeremy--and Without Him After 9/11

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Summary: Admirable woman...
Review: This was such a good book! You can feel the emotions Lyz goes through in the most terrifying time of her life. I felt for all of the victims of September 11, and this book put a face on the man who would not want to be referred to as a hero! Thank you, Lyz, for sharing this with us readers.

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Summary: Riveting - a MUST read
Review: A MUST read for anyone (& who wasn't) affected by 9/11. A very well written, emotional book, written in the form of letters - a interesting memoir -almost storylike. I couldn't put this book down!

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Summary: A Powerful and Poignant Book!!
Review: A powerfull and poignant book written by Jeremy Glick's widow, Lyz Glick and author Dan Zegart. The book is in the form of letters written to their daughter Emmy, who was three months old at the time of Jeremy's tragic death. One of the most interesting aspects, in my opinion, is the way the book is written in two narratives: 1) life with jeremy; and 2) life without him. Additionaly & equally as compelling is the way Jeremy is portrayed as a normal human being - faults and all. Maybe to tell us that we all can be heros! I highly reccomend this book!

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Summary: A touching tribute
Review: Jeremy Glick boarded United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, because a fire at Newark Airport had prevented him from flying the day before.

That morning, at 9:37 a.m. he called his wife, Lyz, to tell her that the plane had been hijacked and that he and a group of others were going to storm the cockpit --- a decision that doomed Glick and his fellow passengers, yet saved countless lives on the ground. Jeremy became an American hero in that single moment of resistance.

There is no way to understand the full depth of emotions of those directly affected by the tragedy of September 11th. There were so many lives taken, which in turn created thousands of living victims --- all the wives, husbands, children, mothers, fathers and friends who were left to deal with the why's and the how's of that September morning.

Lyz Glick is one of those living victims. Her book, YOUR FATHER'S VOICE, is a touching memorial to her husband. She tells us who Jeremy was before September 11th and helps us understand the man behind the heroic action.

Through a series of letters written to the Glicks' daughter, Emmy, Lyz guides us through Jeremy's life beginning when they first met in a ninth grade biology class in 1984, and ending on Emmy's second birthday. Lyz talks about suddenly becoming a single parent and trying to come to terms with Jeremy's violent death while, at the same time, dealing with the media, the investigation and the daily challenges of living without her other half.

Lyz recreates the last week of Jeremy's life in a day-to-day countdown, and as you turn each page and September 11th approaches, you want to stop time and yell, "Don't get on the plane!" You want to change the inevitable.

We have all heard stories of the last phone calls received from Flight 93, but to read the personal account of Jeremy and Lyz's final conversation just moments before the crash, and then to face the sudden silence after the crash, is truly heartbreaking.

Lyz also steps outside her family, as she informs readers of the incredible challenges that family members of 9-11 victims faced while trying to get information about what really happened to their loved ones. The account of the day when those families were finally able to hear the black box recording is heart-wrenching. I don't think anyone can read about these incidents and not cry.

YOUR FATHER'S VOICE is a touching tribute to an outstanding father, husband, son, and brave American. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation for the actions of Jeremy Glick and the other passengers on that doomed flight.

--- Reviewed by Jill McAfee

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Summary: Grace Under Pressure
Review: Jeremy Glick was one the heros of flight 93 on 9/11. In this powerfully touching and captivating book, his wife, Lyz Glick, writes of life with Jeremy before & after 9/11 in the context of letters to their daughter, who was just three months old when he died.

This is a heartbreaking yet heroic & gripping story. Truly one of the best books I've ever read - I couldn't put this book down!

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Summary: Incredible Heartache, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Events
Review: Lyz Glick is a "single married" woman (as she and other women left behind by the 9/11 tragedy describe themselves), widow of Jeremy Glick, who perished on Flight 93. To say this book is moving would be doing it grave injustice, as it goes way beyond that.

"Your Father's Voice: Letters for Emmy About Life with Jeremy Blick--and Without Him After 9/11" is meant to be a collection of letters from mom Lyz to be read someday by daughter Emmy, all of 3 months old on 9/11, about how a loving and doting father Jeremy was, in many ways the more natural parent than Lyz herself, and Lyz readily admits so in the book. The book also paints a detailed picture how Lyz and Jer first met each other and were meant for each other, even though it took them quite a few years to fully realize it and actually get married.

The accounts by Lyz of the post-9/11 days, on how to deal with the grief, the endless inquiries from the FBI and other government officials, but also well-meaning if intrusive regular people, are heartbreaking. Yet one thing that struck me is how little reference Lyz makes to faith or Christ, even in the darkest of hours. Even though Jer and Lyz married in a religious ceremony, religion and an ultimate trust in the Lord (even if we cannot understand why certain things happen the way they do, we do know the Lord has an ultimate reason for everything) are strangely absent. Anyway, this book is highly recommended on many accounts. I wish Lyz and Emmy Glick nothing but the best as they try and move on with their lives.

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Summary: Hearbreaking, but brought closure for this reader
Review: Lyz Glick, a self-described "single-married person," chose to write a series of letters to her daughter, Emerson, about Jeremy Glick: husband, father, and fighter-a hero who died on September 11, 2001, as one of the passengers on Flight 93.


Brutally honest, Lyz Glick and writer, Dan Zegart, create more than a book filled with letters to the Glick's daughter, Emerson, or "Emmy." Emmy, and readers around the world, will come to know a man who is both common and exceptional. Glimpses into the past, told by friends, family and his wife, show Glick's growth from precocious child to courageous man.


Emmy was not quite three-months old when her father and other passengers of Flight 93 became icons of courage in modern American history.


As Emmy learns about her father's past, from childhood to adulthood, readers also come to know Jeremy Glick, his wife, his extended family and friends.


Poignant, funny, wry, and sad, Your Father's Voice, is an intimate portrait of a special man whose past prepared him for the events on 9/11, an infamous day carved forever into American history.


Your Father's Voice is not a book to enjoy, but rather one to absorb.


This is a story of how the common man can rise with honor and sacrifice self to fight against evil. Jeremy Glick, in these letters to his daughter, is such a man-a man who became one of God's warriors.


Lyz Glick and Zegart, through Your Father's Voice, allows those of us who watched helplessly as events played out on 9/11 to believe in heroes and hold them close in our hearts.


Laced with humor, sadness, anger, curiosity and more, this book of letters is also an account of the process Mrs. Glick was forced to partake in as a surviving widow, or "single-married person," as she calls herself.


Though the details are sometimes gruesome, at the same time, they are important to not only Lyz Glick, but to readers as well. Because of her tenacity, the world can also take a step forward toward healing by putting to rest questions about that ugly day.


Your Father's Voice is not a sugarcoated account of Jeremy Glick's life. We meet Glick as he was-an ordinary man made extraordinary through his choices in life, and in death.


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Summary: Beautiful And Touching Dedication
Review: This book has got to be the most beautiful dedication I have ever read, but aside from that-this biography lends to a childs ears the wonder of her Father. The man he was long before the hero he became. This is a MUST read book by all.
Other books to read this Fall:
Nightmares Echo,Father Joe,Running With Scissors

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Summary: Moving and unshakeably candid
Review: This book really surprised me. I was prepared for a lot of cliches about healing and 9/11, but Lyz Glick has a very different take on her experience after losing her husband Jeremy, one of the heroes of Flight 93. Books like this almost always airbrush the wrinkles out of their characters - not Glick's. She let's us see Jeremy's faults, Lyz and Jeremy's stormy relationship before they got married, and the trouble she has with some of the hero worship that came with 9/11. Her book reads very quickly, and builds suspense by telling you a little of what happened after the tragedy alternating with Jeremy and Lyz's background, so she's telling two stories at once, which come together on 9/11. (And even though you know what's coming, it's still riveting.) Some of the most effective material concerns how her daughter, Emmy, has reacted to Jeremy's death (she was only 3 months old on 9/11). I dare you to read those sections without crying! All this, and Lyz has a great sense of humor. This is a very exciting and unusual memoir, and it will stay with you long after you finish it.




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Summary: Remembering 9/11 Today and Always
Review: Through the horror and devastation of 9/11, comes this profound and well written book, a book of letter's from a wonderful widow of a hero to that of her young child. The book that not only tells the happenings of 9/11, but lets us see in to the world that this particular man lived, and loved, prior to him becoming a household name.
With love and dignity, this wonderful woman (Lyz Glick)shares her story with us as well as that of her child.
It is heartwarming and for lack of better words to describe-emotionally beautiful.

I recommend: Skywriting by Jane Pauley and Nightmares Echo by Katlyn Stewart