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  1. Speak to Me : Grief, Love and What Endures
    Speak to Me : Grief, Love and What Endures

  2. One in a Million: Coping with Caring
    One in a Million: Coping with Caring

  3. Last in My Class: How Humor Helped Me Survive Alcoholism
    Last in My Class: How Humor Helped Me Survive Alcoholism

  4. From There to Here
    From There to Here

  5. My Detour on Life's Highway: The Story of a Stem Cell Transplant Survivor
    My Detour on Life's Highway: The Story of a Stem Cell Transplant Survivor

  6. Nothing But Time
    Nothing But Time

  7. A Beacon for Life
    A Beacon for Life

  8. But I'm Not a Bad Person
    But I'm Not a Bad Person

  9. Dementia: the Loss . . . the Love . . . the the Loss . . . the Love . . . the Laughter
    Dementia: the Loss . . . the Love . . . the the Loss . . . the Love . . . the Laughter

  10. A Wing. . . and a Hero!: The Steve Yzerman Story
    A Wing. . . and a Hero!: The Steve Yzerman Story

  11. Dysfunctional Families: Everyone Has One
    Dysfunctional Families: Everyone Has One

  12. Writing Out the Storm
    Writing Out the Storm

  13. Silent Music
    Silent Music

  14. Once a Pickle
    Once a Pickle

  15. Everybody Is Special
    Everybody Is Special

  16. Donald
    Donald

  17. Breaking Barriers: Blind Rites of Passage the Extraordinary Stories of Uncommon People
    Breaking Barriers: Blind Rites of Passage the Extraordinary Stories of Uncommon People

  18. Fear
    Fear

  19. Back Trip
    Back Trip

  20. Handicap and Loving It
    Handicap and Loving It

  21. Zion: Champion for God
    Zion: Champion for God

  22. From Seven to Heaven: A True Cancer Survivor Story
    From Seven to Heaven: A True Cancer Survivor Story

  23. The Ghost Behind the Wheelchair
    The Ghost Behind the Wheelchair

  24. Rolling on: The Story of the Amazing Gary McPherson
    Rolling on: The Story of the Amazing Gary McPherson

  25. Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story (Thorndike Large Print Basic Series) [LARGE PRINT]
    Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story (Thorndike Large Print Basic Series) [LARGE PRINT]

Speak to Me : Grief, Love and What Endures
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • It crosses boundaries of love, spirituality and the present
  • A Personal Look at Grief
  • Dry book about an interesting subject...
  • Beautiful, Soul-stirring, Full of Wonder
  • Beautifully written, and brave.
Speak to Me : Grief, Love and What Endures
Marcie Hershman
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0807028142

Book Description

Grief, Love and What Endures
"A wise, lyrical and deeply moving auscultation of a mourning heart and its possibilities for solace."
—Publishers Weekly

In Speak to Me, acclaimed novelist Marcie Hershman asks what endures after the death of a loved one. Drawing on her brother's newly discovered Jewish faith during his long illness, as well as childhood memories and the sound of his voice, she offers a heartbreaking meditation on grief and remembrance.

"This book, like a friend, comes to enlighten and console its every reader."
—James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword

"Hershman feels her way through individual and family memory, philosophy, history, religion, and psychology into realms I haven't been to before, and leaves a loving record of their lives so potent that she made me grieve for people I've never met."
—Rosellen Brown, author of Half a Heart

"A passionate meditation on the sound of others' voices. . . . If the book weren't so beautifully written, it would be almost too painful to read."
—Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe

"It struggles with silence but it exhales lifeaffirming sound."
—Cynthia Dettelbach, Cleveland Jewish News

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars It crosses boundaries of love, spirituality and the present.......2003-12-28

My brother died almost three years ago, but it took me almost two years of Marcie Hershman's book sitting on my bedside table to get up the courage to read more than a few pages now and then. I finally finished the whole thing today, in one sitting, and am sorry now that I waited. It has been cathartic, enabling me to mourn and to cry in a way that I couldn't before. Her book is full of gentleness, love and writing that flows straight from her pen into our heart. In "Speak to Me" she crosses over boundaries and in between worlds as if they are water. Dreams, spiritual thought, a sometimes complicated childhood and the here and now of her brother Rob's TV producing - she does not limit herself because the story is not one of limits, but of expansion. She has touched a chord that those of us who have lost somebody can identify with. There are many of us who have probably heard the voices, and dreampt dreams about loved ones who are gone. Marcie Hershman, who writes so lovingly about her brother's voice, is, in fact, OUR collective voice to the world.

5 out of 5 stars A Personal Look at Grief.......2003-09-10

Not many books deal with the loss of a sibling and how the death of a brother or sister changes the way you see the world. I found this book extremely helpful to me, although I did not lose a brother, but my husband of sixteen years. Once I started reading, I couldn't put this book down. I started in the afternoon and kept reading through the night. I felt like I was having a heart to heart talk with a good friend. I was happy by how different it was from the usual "how to get over grief" type of book, full of rules and advice. Highly recommended.

2 out of 5 stars Dry book about an interesting subject..........2003-08-21

I read Marcie Hershman's book to give me insight on grief and mourning. Although the topic of voice is intriguing & often neglected, I found the writing to be very dry and difficult to read. The book is brief (100 pages) but for me, I found it hard be propelled forward with detailed descriptions of metaphysical topics. It was excrutiatingly dull for me to complete this short book.

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful, Soul-stirring, Full of Wonder.......2001-07-29

Marcie Hershman's Speak to Me is simply one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. On one level this is "about" the death of a beloved sibling; on its other levels, it engages us in the power of the human voice to speak in so many ways about love -- the love that moves us out of grief and into a richer sense of our lives. That we might hear again our loved one's voice in dreams, or "play" that voice again on audio tape, or have it echo again in memory, and that there are mysteries, too--voice after death--all these aspects of our connection to each other Marcie Hershman reminded me of. She has wit, wisdom and an honesty that reveals the heart of the matter. Her ten meditations, so gorgeously written, and so deeply felt, told me not only about the special bond she and her brother Rob shared, but of the bond I too have felt with family members I have lost. There are so many voices I still long to hear. I am extraordinarily glad to have read Speak to Me. I urge others to read it and share it. This is beautiful, heart-stirring work!

5 out of 5 stars Beautifully written, and brave........2001-06-09

To face your fears, to really dig down deep and write from the heart, is the biggest challenge for any writer. Marcie Hershman more than scales a mountain in SPEAK TO ME. This book is smart and serious yet it ends with such hope and joy, I was sad to put it down. Bravo! A beautiful tribute and memoir.

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