Anna's Friends

By Kathleen A. Feeney and John C. Stuive

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971807639
• ISBN13: 9780971807631
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Rogue River Books L.L.C.
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

I May Be Biased, But I'm Honest Too

As a friend of the family who lived the story of this book as it happened, I'd be a fool to deny my bias as I clicked the 5-star rating button. But I think I'd be doing a greater disservice by not endorsing this precious nugget of publishing as enthusiastically as possible. It would be a shame to categorize Anna's Friends as merely a diary of a family tragedy, though its style and topic could surely lead one to do so. Instead, I consider it a lesson in how life should be lived and what we can learn from the challenges it presents us. John and Kathleen write honestly and clearly, with love, compassion, confusion, sadness and joy. And to understand that this isn't a retrospective look at their ordeal, but an honest and revealing day to day accounting of what it took for them to reconcile and deal with the terminal illness of their baby daughter makes the clarity of their writing and thinking even more remarkable. I treasure the relationship I had with Anna and am proud to be considered one of her friends. I'm even more touched that John and Kathleen would have the courage and faith to publish this important and universally touching tribute to not only their daughter, but the beauty of life and love. We can all take comfort in knowing that books, and people, like this exist.