Losing Malcolm: a Mother’s Journey into Grief
Praise for Losing Malcolm
“A redemptive memoir about losing a baby and learning how to live…short on New Age buzzwords, long on lessons learned from loss.”
• Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today
“An invaluable book for nurses and doctors, as well as pediatricians, obstetricians and, of course, parents.”
• Anna Quindlen
“A spell-binding, uplifting story that reads like a novel. I couldn’t put it down.”
• Lee Smith, author, On Agate Hill“
Precise and intimate prose…exceptionally moving.”
• Publishers Weekly
“A memoir about a mother’s grief for a new-born son who dies of a heart murmur is painful reading, and yet Henderson’s first book is difficult to put down…. hope endures with each turn of the page.”
• Library Journal
I'm happy to be part of this collection of personal stories, a collaboration involving over 60 teachers of memoir from around the world. The book is published independently by the Birren Center for Autobiographical Writing, through which the authors are certified to teach.
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