- Hardcover: 273 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1 May 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684829657
- ISBN-13: 978-0684829654
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,165,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[W]ritten with warmth, depth, and sensitivity... it will be a comfort to those some way down the road, helping them understand their sorrow and pain, and affirming their own individual way of grieving. -- June Gooch Newsletter of the Compassionate Friends The bravery that Ann Finkbeiner must have had to write this book is incredible... By using her own and other parents' experiences, the author makes the issues speakable, and a sense of peace through connectedness with these parents is conveyed to the reader. -- Marceil Bauman-Bork, MD Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 2000 Find a copy... It will exhaust and replenish you. -- Gary Grant We Need Not Walk Alone 1999 Enriching. One is struck by the mysterious power of attachment and love in the parent-child bond. -- Holly Perkins, M.D. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1997 Like mourning itself, this powerful book, much of it in the words of bereaved parents, evokes a series of reactions... It illustrates the hard fact [of human suffering] but also our resilience. New York Times The first book to examine the long-term nature of parental grief through the tales of those who suffer it. Although the book includes most current grief research, its authorities are parents. Baltimore Sun
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For a parent, losing a child is the most devastating event that can occur. Most books on the subject focus on grieving and recovery, but as most parents agree, there is no recovery from such a loss. This book examines the continued love parents feel for their child and the many poignant and ingenious ways they devise to preserve the bond. Through detailed profiles of parents, Ann Finkbeiner shows how new activities and changed relationships with their spouse, friends, and other children can all help parents preserve a bond with the lost child. Refusing to fall back on pop jargon about "recovery" or to offer easy suggestions or standardized timelines, Finkbeiner's is a genuine and moving search to come to terms with loss. Her complex profiles of parents resonate with the honesty and authenticity of uncomfortable emotions expressed and, most importantly, shared with others experiencing a similar loss. Finally, each profile exemplifies the many heroic ways parents learn to live with their pain, and by so doing, honor the lives their children should have lived.
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I have a mental picture of myself in my twenties, standing on a hillside talking to a neighbor, with my four-year-old son wandering somewhere behind me. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book contains some of the most painful, and at the same time the most helpful writing I have read since the death of my own son. Those who will choose to read it will do so because they have experienced the most devastating loss imaginable - the death of a child. Ann Finkbeiner is right when she says her book is not for the newly bereaved. There are no comforting platitudes, no 12 steps, no meditations. No words of wisdom, no instructions for "getting over it", since, as she says, and everyone who has been there knows - there IS no getting over it. There's just learning a different way to live the rest of your life, learning to live with the pain. You'll only read it if you have the need to, and if you have need to, please know that I'm very sorry.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
One of the best books I've read since my son died is "When the Bough Breaks : Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter"; Judith R., Phd Bernstein. I would recommend that one first.
Format:Paperback
I'd agree with Charleston; better books exist on the subject. ("Gili's Book", for one)
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