Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and

Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own son, Wade, died tragically at age sixteen in 1996. Now she shares her experiences in Saving Graces, an incandescent memoir of Edwardsâ€™ trials, tragedies, and triumphs, and of how various communities celebrated her joys and lent her steady strength and quiet hope in darker times.

Edwards writes about growing up in a military family, where she learned how to make friends easily in dozens of new schools and neighborhoods around the world and came to appreciate the unstinting help and comfort naval families shared. Edwardsâ€™ reminiscences of her years as a mother focus on the support she and other parents offered one another, from everyday favors to the ultimate test of her own communityâ€™s strengthâ€”their compassionate response to the death of the Edwardsâ€™ teenage son, Wade, in 1996. Her descriptions of her husbandâ€™s campaigns for Senate, president, and vice president offer a fascinating perspective on the groups, great and small, that sustain our democracy. Her fight with breast cancer, which stirred an outpouring of support from women across the country, has once again affirmed Edwardsâ€™ belief in the power of community to make our lives better and richer.
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2007-08-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780767925389

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2007-08-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780767925389

Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers

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