num_pages: 116
description: “I never said goodbye!” A mother’s cry haunts her life for years after the death of her infant son. Grief shadows her despite an otherwise happy married and family life. Her healing finally begins with remembrance—a technique she learns from a thoroughly unexpected encounter with Elie Wiesel, Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, guardian of six million memories. Wiesel entered Molly Fumia’s life at the very moment she was struggling with her “one small memory.” His belief in remembering the past in order to re-define the present and re-create the future became a model of survival and transformation for her. A Child at Dawn is a book about connections—between the past, present, and future; between love and grief; between the personal and the universal. And about the connection between the author’s pain and all suffering. Hers is a journey of faith that reaches out to mothers who have lost children, to persons struggling with grief and guilt, and to those afraid of memory. Here is a story about the mystery of memory which, when revealed, can be the most powerful healing grace of human experience. A Child at Dawn is a beautifully written and engrossingly told account that transcends one mother’s sorrow at the loss of a child to reach out and connect with all human suffering.
language: English
title: A Child at Dawn: The Healing of a Memory
titlecomplete: A Child at Dawn: The Healing of a Memory
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Ave Maria Pr