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HEARTS AS BIG AS FISTS & OTHER STORIES
Heather Tosteson


  • A mother tries to make sense of the horrifying reality that all three of her sons may die of AIDS. 
  • A young woman whose manic depressive mother has died and whose father has remarried welcomes her own unborn child and recognizes the complicated source of her own maternity.
  • A young woman faces the loss of her husband to kidney disease after he has donated a kidney to her own brother.
  • A family and a surgeon respond to the challenges of heart surgery on a young child.
  • A nineteen-year-old girl comes of age dealing with a rare cancer.
  • A menopausal scientist seeks a kundalini experience that never comes.
  • A woman, after a visionary experience, believes she has the power to heal.
The spirits—and voices—of the characters in these twelve stories are fierce, raging, funny, loving and surprisingly generous as they struggle to discover what can illumine and sustain them and those they love.
232 pages

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from HANG GLIDING
from MY COUNSELOR
from KEEPSAKES

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OF FURTHER INTEREST

Other Books by Heather Tosteson
Sanctity of the Moment
Visible Signs

God Speaks My Language, Can You?

WISING UP PRESS ANTHOLOGIES
Illness & Grace, Terror & Transformation
Families: The Frontline of Pluralism
Double Lives, Reinvention & Those We Leave Behind
View from the Bed: View from the Bedside


WISING UP PRESS COLLECTIVE
Keys to the Kingdom: Reflections on Music and the Mind
Only Beautiful & Other Stories

Wising Up House Readings & Reading for Relation Groups

Illness & Grace
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