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Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers
Broadway
June 2008
On Sale: August 14, 2007
384 pages ISBN: 0767925386 EAN: 9780767925389 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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 everyday favors to the ultimate test of her
own community’s strength—their compassionate response to
the death of the Edwards’ teenage son, Wade, in 1996. Her
descriptions of her husband’s campaigns for Senate,
president, and vice president offer a fascinating
perspective on the groups, great and small, that sustain
our democracy. Her fight with breast cancer, which stirred
an outpouring of support from women across the country, has
once again affirmed Edwards’ belief in the power of
community to make our lives better and richer.
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