When their four-year-old son, Danny, dies suddenly, Mitch and Kate's grief overwhelms them. Conflicted about going on with their lives, Mitch and Kate decide to leap from a cliff at Chimney Bluffs. When the couple is found by park rangers, Clancy and Bobby, Kate is still very much alive. What follows is a poignant and powerful story of three strangers, each facing a tragic loss, who together find friendship and healing. A novel of hope and redemption by David B. Seaburn, author of "Charlie No Face" (Savant 2010).
“[Seaburn] does a good job of tracking the myriad ways that the different players react to the tragedy.” –KIRKUS REVIEWS “I don’t know how, and I don’t know why, but I think I died today.” So begins the complex and mysterious journey of Gavin Goode and his family. What happened to Gavin and why? What secrets will emerge along the way? Frankie, his wife and a dress store owner, feels guilty, but why? His son, Ryan, who owns an ice cream parlor, and daughter-in-law, Jenna, who is a bank manager, are expecting their first baby. How will this trauma affect them? And what of Rosemary, Frankie’s best friend? Or Ben Hillman and eleven year old, Christopher? How are they implicated in the events that unfold around Gavin’s misfortune? This is a story of despair and hope, dreams and reality, uncertainty and faith, humor, secrecy, forgiveness and beginnings.
When Maxwell Ruth falls down his basement stairs, he starts hearing a puzzling message: endingtimeendingtimeendingtime and his life changes forever. Enter the lives, loves, and losses of six people in search of something. Each could use More More Time, but the clock is ticking and time is short.
A family orientation in health care can provide a wider understanding of illness and a broader range of solutions than the classic biomedical model. This volume thus offers practical guidance for the physician who would like to take greater advantage of this resource. The result is a readable guide, structured around step-by-step protocols that are vividly illustrated with case studies drawn from the authors extensive experience at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
When their four-year-old son, Danny, dies suddenly, Mitch and Kate's grief overwhelms them. Conflicted about going on with their lives, Mitch and Kate decide to leap from a cliff at Chimney Bluffs. When the couple is found by park rangers, Clancy and Bobby, Kate is still very much alive. What follows is a poignant and powerful story of three strangers, each facing a tragic loss, who together find friendship and healing. A novel of hope and redemption by David B. Seaburn, author of "Charlie No Face" (Savant 2010).
When eleven-year-old Jackie meets every kid's greatest nightmare--disfigured hermit Charlie No Face--his life is changed forever. A coming of age story in which a misunderstood recluse and a young boy redeem each other's lives through a most unlikely friendship.
When eleven-year-old Jackie meets every kid's greatest nightmare--disfigured hermit Charlie No Face--his life is changed forever. A coming of age story in which a misunderstood recluse and a young boy redeem each other's lives through a most unlikely friendship.
David B. Seaburn uses his extensive experience with individuals and families coping with medical and psychiatric illness to create a memorable story about one mans search for truth at the heart of tragedy. Randall is a middle-aged man who has spent his life trying to preserve the memory of the mother he lost as a young boy. At the same time, he struggles with the fact that he lives with the person he suspects of killing herhis alcoholic father. Tormented by both grief and failed opportunities, Randall finds himself in a psychiatric hospital piecing together the meaning of his life after an attempted suicide. Upon his return home, Randall discovers that his father is dying of cancer and that now he must care for him. On this final journey, Randall learns what really happened to his mother, and in the process both men discover light emerging from the darkness of their lives.
“[Seaburn] does a good job of tracking the myriad ways that the different players react to the tragedy.” –KIRKUS REVIEWS “I don’t know how, and I don’t know why, but I think I died today.” So begins the complex and mysterious journey of Gavin Goode and his family. What happened to Gavin and why? What secrets will emerge along the way? Frankie, his wife and a dress store owner, feels guilty, but why? His son, Ryan, who owns an ice cream parlor, and daughter-in-law, Jenna, who is a bank manager, are expecting their first baby. How will this trauma affect them? And what of Rosemary, Frankie’s best friend? Or Ben Hillman and eleven year old, Christopher? How are they implicated in the events that unfold around Gavin’s misfortune? This is a story of despair and hope, dreams and reality, uncertainty and faith, humor, secrecy, forgiveness and beginnings.
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