A Broken Heart Still Beats

Description

An extraordinarily beautiful and understanding compilation illuminates the tragedy of child loss - Over 50,000 hardback copies sold worldwide - An extraordinary compilation of poetry, excerpts from classic short stories, novels, biographies and autobiographies focusing on child death - Compiled from works by exceptional writers and thinkers: Raymond Carver, Joseph Campbell, Rabbi Harold Kushner, William Shakespeare, Albert Camus and others - Expresses universal themes of grief in heartfelt language and touching imagery - Many of the contributors are bereaved parents themselves ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: There are few, if any, events in life as traumatic, heart-wrenching and crushing as the death of a child. While nothing can mute the pain of such life-shattering loss, others who know this experience can help those suffering articulate the chaos of their feelings. A Broken Heart Still Beats is a remarkable compilation of poetry, fiction, and essays about the pain, stages of grief, and the coping and healing process that follow the death of one's child.

Anne McCracken, coauthor of A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies, is a former newspaper reporter and feature writer. She lives in Maryland and is now working on other nonfiction books. She lost her young son, Jake, in 1989. Mary Semel is a clinical social worker and a bereaved mother. In 1991,her 16-year-old son, Alexander, was killed in a car accident. She turned to reading to assuage her grief, as did Anne McCracken. As they shared our literary discoveries, they decided to compile an anthology in the hope they could help others. It became A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies. She currently has a private practice in which she does individual, couple, and group psychotherapy. Previously, she worked for 15 years in addictions treatment programs at two local hospitals. In one, she was responsible for conducting family therapy for families of alcoholics and drug addicts as well as individual and family counseling. Her husband, Peter, is an attorney in Baltimore, and daughter, Hilary, practices maritime law in New York.