Holding Silvan
Subtitle: a brief life
By: by Monica Wesolowska
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780986000713
Subjects: Parental grief; Newborn infants; Diaries; Mothers; Cerebrovascular disease in children; Death; Authors; Family relationships
Description: Shares a personal story about pain and loss, as Monica Wesolowska gives birth to a healthy-seeming baby boy until the doctors give her son a grim prognosis. The story that follows is not a story of typical maternal heroism. There is no medical miracle here. Instead, we find the strangest of hopes. Certain of her choice, Monica must still ask herself at every step if she is loving Silvan as well as a mother can. The result is a page-turning testimony to the power of love.