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"""A wondrous, hopeful, heart-breaking witness to one of the darkest journeys imaginable... This will be one of those rare books that people re-read, think about, and encourage others to read."" --Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, author, with Oprah Winfrey, of What Happened to You ""I love this book. I absolutely could not put it down. It is beautifully written and cuts to the very heart of life and love: The story of Havi's short, beautiful life and early death from Tay-Sachs is harrowing, heartbreaking, uplifting, profound and sometimes funny. Havi will charm the socks off you.""--Anne Lamott Life is unfolding as planned for Myra Sack and her husband Matt until their beautiful year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, and given only a year to live. Myra and Matt decide to celebrate Havi's short life and vow to show her as much of the world as they can, surrounded by friends and family who relocate to be in Havi's orbit. Tapping their Judaism, they transform Friday night Shabbats into birthday parties--""Shabbirthdays""--to replace the birthdays Havi will never have."

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"""Myra Sack's memoir is a deeply personal look at her family's resilience in the face of the unimaginable. Fifty-seven Fridays will help so many others find strength."" --Sheryl Sandberg, former COO, Facebook""Required reading for any parent, because it is the story of the greatest love story between a parent and child: loss. The book--beautiful, propulsive, wrenching, and true--reveals the essential truth that there is no love without loss, and that we learn how to love through and within our grief."" --Emily Rapp Black, New York Times Best-selling Author of The Still Point of the Turning World""Through the story of the life and death of her young daughter, Havi Lev, Sack shows us with both sorrow and levity that the truest way to honor those we've lost is to hold them close through care and ritual, even after they are gone. This book is both a balm and a manual for anyone who has grieved. I have never read anything like it."" --Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers"

"""A wondrous, hopeful, heart-breaking witness to one of the darkest journeys imaginable... This will be one of those rare books that people re-read, think about, and encourage others to read."" --Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, author, with Oprah Winfrey, of What Happened to You ""I love this book. I absolutely could not put it down. It is beautifully written and cuts to the very heart of life and love: The story of Havi's short, beautiful life and early death from Tay-Sachs is harrowing, heartbreaking, uplifting, profound and sometimes funny. Havi will charm the socks off you."" --Anne Lamott ""Required reading for any parent. The book--beautiful, propulsive, wrenching, and true--reveals the essential truth that there is no love without loss, and that we learn how to love through and within our grief."" --Emily Rapp Black, New York Times best-selling author of The Still Point of the Turning World ""Myra Sack's memoir is a deeply personal look at her family's resilience in the face of the unimaginable. Fifty-seven Fridays will help so many others find strength."" --Sheryl Sandberg, former COO, Facebook ""This book is both a balm and a manual for anyone who has grieved--which is to say, each and every one of us. I have never read anything like it."" --Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers ""Myra Sack does not just shine a light on the inextricable bond between grief and gratitude, anguish and joy, but also provides guidance on how to navigate the impossible."" --Beck Dorey-Stein, New York Times Best-selling author of From the Corner of the Oval ""Death is rarely simple, and the loss of a child will never be okay, yet the love that radiates from these pages has the power to mend the broken world."" --Mirabai Starr, author of God of Love and Caravan of No Despair"

"""Myra Sack's memoir is a deeply personal look at her family's resilience in the face of the unimaginable. Fifty-seven Fridays will help so many others find strength."" --Sheryl Sandberg, former COO, Facebook""Required reading for any parent, because it is the story of the greatest love story between a parent and child: loss. The book--beautiful, propulsive, wrenching, and true--reveals the essential truth that there is no love without loss, and that we learn how to love through and within our grief."" --Emily Rapp Black, New York Times Best-selling Author of The Still Point of the Turning World""Through the story of the life and death of her young daughter, Havi Lev, Sack shows us with both sorrow and levity that the truest way to honor those we've lost is to hold them close through care and ritual, even after they are gone. This book is both a balm and a manual for anyone who has grieved. I have never read anything like it."" --Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers ""In this beautifully written memoir, we follow the journey of Myra and her husband Matt as they make the excruciating and ultimately life-giving choice to stay fully present with the process of losing their two-year-old daughter Havi to the ravages of Tay-Sachs disease. What struck me most deeply was not only the author's searing authenticity, but Havi's luminous life, her sweet smiles and tender touches, her profound wisdom in the midst of her dying. Death is rarely simple, and the loss of a child will never be okay, yet the love that radiates from these pages has the power to mend the broken world. I will be carrying Havi in my heart forever."" --Mirabai Starr, author of God of Love and Caravan of No Despair""An act of radical love and profound generosity, Fifty-Seven Fridays is required reading. This is the most honest, devastating, and heart-expanding account of what it means to love the one person you're never supposed to lose. Myra Sack does not just shine a light on the inextricable bond between grief and gratitude, anguish and joy, but also provides guidance on how to navigate the impossible. Trust me, Havi Lev Goldstein is about to change your life."" --Beck Dorey Stein, New York Times bestselling author of From the Corner of the Oval"

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Myra Sack graduated with a B.A in government and All-American Honors in 2010 from Dartmouth College, where she captained the women's varsity soccer team. She earned a post-graduate Lombard Fellowship in Granada, Nicaragua with Soccer Without Borders. Following her lifelong passion for sports and social justice, Myra joined SquashBusters, Inc., in Boston in 2013, serving as their Chief Program and Strategy Officer. Myra has an MBA in Social Impact from Boston University and is trained as a Certified Compassionate Bereavement Care provider by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore. She serves on the Board of the Courageous Parents Network and is the Founder of E-Motion, Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to ensure community is a right for all grieving people. A writer, coach, and activist, Myra and her husband Matt, live in Jamaica Plain, MA with their second daughter, Kaia, and son Ezra. Myra's oldest daughter, Havi, passed away on January 20, 2021 of Tay-Sachs disease.

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