Willower

<p><strong>A National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist and winner of a Literary Titan Gold Book Award</strong><em>Willower</em> is a book about using the power of story and imagination to survive the unimaginable. It is the story of a bereaved mother's urgent quest to find a way to stay connected with her beautiful boy.</p><p><br></p><p>On April 30 2007 Deanna Kassenoff experienced a parent's worst nightmare when her nine-year-old son Sam collapsed on the playground at school and died from sudden cardiac arrest. Drowning in grief considering ways to end her own life Deanna was faced with a choice: give up or rewrite her story one with a different ending.</p><p><br></p><p>This award-winning memoir takes us into an unfathomable world of the most profound and permanently disorienting experiences: the sudden death of a child. Determined to find meaning in the details of her son's life Deanna shows us how it is sometimes our <em>lunacy</em> that pulls us through grief back to living again. Written with stunning honesty intensity and eloquence <em>Willower</em> is an unforgettable and heartbreaking demonstration of the endurance it takes to grieve and the courage it takes to live. This thoughtful and lyrical narrative will change you and stay with you forever.</p><p><br></p><p>We use the words widow widower and orphan but there is no word in our vocabulary that identifies the bereaved parent. So Deanna coined the term <em>willower��</em>. From the words <em>willow</em> a weeping tree that symbolizes deep mourning; and <em>willpower</em> that creative source within that provides the superhuman strength and determination it takes to continue on-despite unimaginable loss.</p>