Stations of the Heart

A fathers heartbreaking and hopeful story about his beloved son in which a young man teaches his family a new way to die with wit candor and grace.. A book after my own heart profound gorgeous deeply spiritual and human beautifully written heartbreaking but also because of the writer''s wisdom and spirit triumphant. Anne LamottAs the book opens Richard Lischers son Adam calls to tell his father a professor of divinity at Duke University that his cancer has returned. Adam is a charismatic young man with a promising law career and that his wife is pregnant with their first child makes the diseases return all the more devastating. Despite the cruel course of the illness Adams growing weakness evokes in him a remarkable spiritual strength. This is the story of one last summer lived as honestly and faithfully as possible. Deeply moving and utterly lacking in sentimentality or self-pity Stations of the Heart is an unforgettable book about life and death and the terrible blessing of saying good-bye.