Overview

A National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist, and winner of a Literary Titan Gold Book Award, Willower 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. 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. 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 lunacy that pulls us through grief back to living again. Written with stunning honesty, intensity, and eloquence, Willower 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. 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 willower(R). From the words willow, a weeping tree that symbolizes deep mourning; and willpower, that creative source within that provides the superhuman strength and determination it takes to continue on-despite unimaginable loss.

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"A compelling book that gives readers a glimpse into the world of a mother's worst nightmare. Any mother that has ever worried over their child will be moved by the honesty in Willower. This book is for anyone who is drowning in grief, or who wants to better understand the experience of a bereft mother whose arms ache to hold their child. - Carla Killough McClafferty, author of Forgiving God and multiple nonfiction books for young readers I have to honestly say it is the BEST, most helpful, most enlightening book on the grieving to surviving, to living, to thriving, to healing process I have ever read. More than a ""read"" it was an experience. Creating an imprint embossed permanently onto my heart. - Diane Laflamme Romagnoli, Voice of Grief"

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Deanna Kassenoff is the writer behind willower.org, and award-winning author of the memoir Willower: Rewriting Life After Unimaginable Loss, a Finalist in the 18th Annual National Indie Excellence(R) Awards, and winner of a Literary Titan Gold Book Award. Deanna Kassenoff is a bereaved mother who knows the worst loss, the insanity of grief, and the silence and aloneness that follows the death of a child. She's also a creative problem solver, a communicator, and a teacher at heart.""Over the years, I came to realize that being a writer is more than what I do. It's who I am. The process of writing (which involves constant rewriting) has taught me to trust in myself, my intuition, and inner wisdom. After my son's death, writing helped me to process what I was experiencing; it gave me a reason to not give up but to keep going. My hope is that Willower becomes a lasting companion to you in your grief and inspires you to keep going too, and rewrite your life.""

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