num_pages: 272
description: This poignant love story of a father for his son is at once funny heartbreaking and hopeful . In it a young man teaches his entire family a new way to die with wit candor and always remarkable grace. This emotionally riveting account probes the heart without sentimentality or self-pity.As the book opens Richard Lischers son Adam calls to tell his father a professor of divinity at Duke University that his cancer has returned. Adam is a smart charismatic young man with a promising law career and an unlikely candidate for tragedy. That his young wife is pregnant with their first child makes the diseases return all the more devastating. Despite the crushing magnitude of his diagnosis and the cruel course of the illness  Adams growing weakness evokes in him an unexpected strength. This is the story of one last summer and the young man who lived it as honestly and faithfully as possible. We meet Adam in many phases of his growing up but always through the narrow lens of his undying hope when in the final season of his life he becomes his familys (and his fathers) spiritual leader. Honest in its every dimension Stations of the Heart is an unforgettable book about life and death and the terrible blessing of saying good-bye. 
language: English
title: Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son
publisher: Knopf