Endorsements ::
Star Child: A Mother's Journey
Through Grief
by Jennifer J. Martin
"Star Child, A Mother's
Journey Through Grief by Jennifer Martin is a
beautifully crafted tribute to a young man's life and death, which lands in
the heart gently, like a feather from an angel's wing."
- Maria Housden, author, Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived
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"Jennifer Martin's son, Kelly, was a remarkable spirit of love and grace
wrapped for twenty-three years in a body that was inexorably weakening.
But her gifted account of his life and death brings insights that take the
reader to new and perhaps untouched places of discovery and empathy.
Star Child reveals a depth of sorrow and a victory of transcendence that
makes the grief of 'goodbye' reach into your heart and soul, both stirring
pain and delivering peace. This is a stellar new entry into the world of
hope and healing."
-Andrea Gambill, editor
Grief Digest magazine
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"Jennifer is a transparent soul and her reflections heal us all."
- Karen Carpenter Calhoun, hospital chaplain
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Star Child is a beautifully told story. Jennifer Martin has managed
to speak of her deep loss without sentimentality. Instead, she creates
space for the universal elements of loss and grief to find expression.
Through her words the tearing apart of one mother's heart moves
toward a fierce resolve to find the deeper meanings in love and life.
In grief, she writes, "something expands and contracts inside of you."
It's a wise image. Then she submits her own pain to the expansion.
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