Finding New Life After the Death of My Son

<p><strong>A dauntless memoir about leaning into life after grief <em>Finding New Life after the Death of My Son</em> is moving in its examinations of life death and faith. </strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Foreword Magazine</em> <em>Clarion Reviews</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Bodnarczuk writes with touching precision... As he stares down the hardest questions of all-why?-the pages pulse with a real spiritual struggle described with rare frankness and clarity worked through by a thinker who never professes to have all of the answers but whose hard-won insights in the end will offer comfort to other believers facing losses that might seem unendurable. <em>Publisher's Weekly</em> <em>BookLife Reviews</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(14 16 26 1)><em>Finding New Life After the Death of My Son</em> is a story of anguish confusion and the struggle to find meaning in a world that seems irrevocably altered. Yet amidst the pain Bodnarczuk illuminates the transformative power of love resilience and hope inspiring us with his courage. <em>Midwest Book Review</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>This is every parent's worst nightmare. You go to wake up your eighteen-year-old son on Sunday morning for church and you find him dead in his bed. Only later do you learn he bought a single Xanax pill on Snapchat for fifteen dollars to calm his anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic. He took the pill then ordered food from Door Dash but he never lived to eat it. It was a counterfeit pill that contained over three times the lethal dose of fentanyl¾that one pill killed him. Mark Bodnarczuk's heart-wrenching memoir begins just hours into his process of mourning the tragic death of his teenage son. With indelible sincerity and penetrating detail Bodnarczuk shares the intimate details of his grief inviting readers into his moments of anguish confusion forgiveness hope and transformation. <span style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)>If you allow Mark to be the docent he'll lead you on a journey down into the depths of grief and pain that plagued his soul and then back up through his process of finding new life and a deeper sense of meaning after the death of his son.</span></p>