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ILLNESS & GRACE

TERROR & TRANSFORMATION
Heather Tosteson
Charles D. Brockett
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In this anthology of personal memoirs, stories, and poetry contemporary writers explore themes of illness and trauma and the wide variety of ways in which we respond to them. Authors ponder the impact of cancer, ALS, stroke, juvenile diabetes, dementia, chronic fatigue syndrome, anorexia, accidental death, schizophrenia, PTSD, domestic and sexual abuse on them, their families, friends. The collection will be of special interest to people who have experienced or are experiencing illness or trauma themselves or in those close to them and who would like to explore the meaning of these life-challenging experiences further. The book is designed to be read by the general public, and also in reading groups, writing groups, and support groups. It includes an opening essay on how we as readers can listen faithfully to these stories and a closing one for people who would like to explore the ways writing can help us order and integrate powerful life-changing events.     352 pp.   ISBN 978-0-9796552-2-7

LOOK INSIDE
Table of Contents
Slow Dancing with Mortality - Heather Tosteson
Complexity - Jane Levin
Crane - Darlene Montonaro

The Five A.M. Inquisitor - Robert C. Knox
 In Chemo World - Joan Potter
 After the Accident - Susan Hodara

Phone Call from My Schizophrenic Son - Hannah Thomassen



CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS


Mark Barkawitz•Sunipa Basu•Wendy Brown
Marion Cohen•Cathryn Cofell•James Coffman
Pamela Z.Daum•Mary V.Davidson•Carol V.Davis•Lucille Lang Day
Elizabeth di Grazia•Victoria Elizabeth•Kimberly K. Farrar
Susi Gregg Fowler•Christina Gombar•Kathleen Heideman
Susan Hodara•John Holbrook•Marci Greer Jaffer
Mary-Lane Kamberg•Robert C. Knox•Phyllis Langton•Jane Levin
Sara Lippmann•Denise Miller•Darlene Montonaro
Greggory Moore•Lori Anderson Moseman•Susan R. Norton
Mary O'Malley•Michael Onofrey•Rebecca Payne
Joel B. Peckham,Jr.•Joan Potter•Patricia Ranzoni
Terry Sanville•Marian Kaplun Shapiro
Claudette Mork Sigg•Laura R. Sommers•Merry Speece
Adele Steiner•Hannah Thomassen•Aelena Thompson
Cinda Thompson•Heather Tosteson•Ross West

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