Liz Tichenor

This is an autobiography where the author tells of her own personal journey through the "shadows" of grief. . Whatever your experience is with grief and/or faith, [The Night Lake] will manage to surprise you. That it's not easy reading is an understatement. Liz finds her month old son is in an ambulance racing to the hospital and barely clinging to life with a previously undiagnosed medical condition. A month earlier her mother had died. She finds that even the strength of her husband and her daughter are not enough nd as a priest she feels aghast that for the first time in her life she questions the existence of a God of any kind. If you are still reading this and not running to save your sanity...you will find yourself wanting to just sit with Liz and hold her hand. What i wasn't sure I wanted to do was read one more sentence in this book...but I did. I realized that in the depth of this young mother/daughters/wife's almost unbearable grief, was a lesson in how to not only simply "be there", but that a friend's mere presence...not their often useless words, helps to convey compassion and the will to go on to those mired in grief and overcome with tragedy. I gave the book 3.5 stars for the author's ability to even write this. Not a good book to end the year with.… (más)