Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers

✍ Scribed by Edwards, Elizabeth

• Book ID: 107008046
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 256 KB
• Series: Saving Graces
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780767926355

✦ Synopsis

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 Edwards' 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. Edwards' reminiscences of her years as a mother focus on the support she and other parents offered one another, from...