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Not one of us gets through adulthood escaping grief. We grieve for lost lives, lost dreams, lost loves. However it comes into our lives, grief must be dealt with and its process can feel lonely and harsh. This is story about grief. A woman's car skids through wet leaves one foggy autumn evening, instantly killing a child. In that moment, her carefully ordered life comes apart. A complex journey that involves a painful reexamination of her marriage, her ties to her adult children, her career, her closest friendship, an adulterous relationship, and her own childhood, parallels her exhausting fight for her own survival. At the center of the struggle is the child who has perished. To make peace with this child, to assuage her guilt, she must revisit another child: the child she herself had been, a child she had long ago chosen to leave behind. She must then decide: does she deserve to go on? Does she even want to? Or will she find the courage to battle back to wholeness and sanity? That decision, hers alone to make, will forever alter the lives of the people she most loves.
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Lois Rafferty has been a frequent speaker and writer on issues of bereavement, older women, children, wellness, and aging. She has authored published articles regarding widowhood and grief, and she has served on advisory committees of numerous social service agencies. Lois has taught human services/aging courses for a number of years for Metropolitan State University, as well as several other colleges and universities. She has a M.S. degree in Human Services Planning and Administration, with an emphasis in Aging. She has worked as a community organizer, grant writer, environmental program consultant, social worker, and as a writer/reporter for community newspapers in the Minneapolis area. She was a VISTA Volunteer in Michigan working with impoverished elders, focusing on issues of health, housing, safety, and establishing a nutrition program. Her passion is social justice advocacy. In addition, Lois has a keen interest in children's issues. She was a second grade teacher and also worked with special needs children. She has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education, with a minor in Special Education. The author's goal, with this novel, was to explore her interest in grief and survival. She knows about struggles inherent to loss and change; she believes in the power of healing, via friendship, family, internal fortitude, and faith. If this story has a message, it is, simply, this: the darkest journeys are endurable; we do our best; we muddle through; and finally, strength of spirit can be impenetrable. Therein lies he mystery in being human; therein lies the hope.
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