At its most fundamental level, this is a story of a child\'s life and death, and a mother\'s subsequent struggle to find meaning again and to live an examined life.
But this is much more than another personal memoir; it is a heartfelt, incisive, sometimes painful and often funny description of the way in which a mother\'s life was transformed by the Lessons she learned from her young daughter, Lessons that enabled her to become resilient and, in time, to fully live, and even find joy, after a.
At its most fundamental level, this is a story of a child\'s life and death, and a mother\'s subsequent struggle to find meaning again and to live an examined life