You won't always be this sad, her mother, who also lost a son, reassures her, while a close friend encourages her to pick up the pen and write it all down. Capturing her own struggles as she emerges from shock in the wake of her son's...
Parental grief
- Author:Fitch, ShereeSummary:
- Author:Bugler, SuzanneSummary:
When Rachel and her husband lose their unborn child, feelings of grief and resentment drive them apart. Desperate for empathy, Rachel reaches out to a man from her past who's also lost someone, but their relationship soon spirals into a...
- Author:Schwartz, Julie L.Summary:
Since Joel tackles what happens when the unimaginable loss of a child becomes reality. Julie Schwartz introduces readers to her son Joel David Schwartz, who lived with Autism Spectrum Disorder and died by accidental overdose at age 25....
- Author:Diehl, CharlenlSummary:
Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. After a bewildering series of rapid diagnoses and emergency interventions, Charlene's daughter Chloe is born. But...
- Author:Janusz, Barbara D.Summary:
When Elizabeth Thiessen embarks on an expedition to study the cave murals of Baja California, Mexico, she is catapulted onto a mythical, existential journey into the unknown. Within days of landing in the Baja, Elizabeth discovers that...
- Author:Desilets, LucSummary:
Laurent, un médecin à l'aube de la quarantaine, est incapable de surmonter la mort tragique de sa fille de trois ans. Laissant derrière lui son entourage, il décide de descendre en kayak la majestueuse rivière Saguenay, de Rivière-du-...
- Author:Nixon, RosemarySummary:
Shortlisted, George Bugnet Award for Fiction. Kalila chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daughter’s birth also heralds the news of her congenital heart condition. In this startlingly...
- Author:Gauer, StephenSummary:
One Friday, Vancouver lawyer Paul Brenner has dinner with his son, Daniel. They talk about work, health, money, and music, and part ways. The following evening, Paul receives the phone call that is every parent's worst nightmare:...
- Author:Gauer, StephenSummary:
One Friday, Vancouver lawyer Paul Brenner has dinner with his son, Daniel. They talk about work, health, money, and music, and part ways. The following evening, Paul receives the phone call that is every parent's worst nightmare: Daniel...
- Author:Tsai, AddieSummary:
Poppy wants to go to college like everyone else, but her father has other ideas. Ever since her mirror twin sister, Lola, mysteriously vanished, Poppy’s father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can...
- Author:Thrall, NathanSummary:
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited...