Author : Marc Gellman
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781737522300
The author searched deep into his soul to understand his wife's courage, and to find the answer: Can a forty-year marriage still have been magical, romantic, and filled with life, even with a thirty-year struggle with Cancer?
Author : Erin Silver
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1459827740
A little girl grieves the loss of her mother, but she can’t grieve alone. When her friends and family arrive at her house to sit shiva, laden with cakes and stories, she refuses to come downstairs. But the laughter and memories gradually bring her into the fold, where she is comforted by her community. By the end of the book, she feels stronger and more nourished, and she understands the beautiful tradition. Then, when sees her father sitting alone, she is able to comfort him in his time of need. Sitting Shiva is a beautiful, heartfelt story about grief and loss, but also about comfort and community. It shows that no matter what religion you practice, we are all more similar than we are different. A note from the author explains the ritual of sitting shiva, a seven-day period of mourning for the death of a family member observed in Jewish homes.
Author : Jonathan Tropper
Publisher : Dutton
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0452296366
Original publication and copyright date: 2009.
Author : Francesca Hornak
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451488776
A family can’t escape their secrets when they’re forced to spend a week in quarantine in this “sharply funny” (People) novel—an Indie Next and #1 Library Reads Pick! It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter—who is usually off saving the world—will be joining them at Weyfield Hall. But Olivia, a doctor, is only coming home because she has to. She's just returned from treating an epidemic abroad and has been told she must stay in quarantine for a week...and so too should her family. For the next seven days, the Birches are locked down, cut off from the rest of humanity, and forced into each other's orbits. Younger, unabashedly frivolous daughter Phoebe is fixated on her upcoming wedding, while Olivia deals with the culture shock of first-world problems. As Andrew sequesters himself in his study writing scathing restaurant reviews and remembering his glory days as a war correspondent, Emma hides a secret that will turn the whole family upside down. In close proximity, not much can stay hidden for long, and as revelations and long-held tensions come to light, nothing is more shocking than the unexpected guest who's about to arrive....
Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher : Westland
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN : 939507308X
About the Book A WONDERFULLY CREATIVE INSIGHT INTO THE LEGEND AND SYMBOLISM OF SHIVA AS A GOD AND HIS ROLE IN THE HINDU TRINITY ALONGSIDE VISHNU AND BRAHMA Shiva, ʻthe destroyerʼ among the Hindu Trinity (of gods), is depicted in many contradictory manners. He is an ascetic who wears animal skin, his body smeared with ashes. Contradictory to his wild nature, he is also depicted as having a family, with a beautiful wife and two children. There are many more such varied representations of Shiva, the most prominent of these being the Linga and theNataraja. The author, Devdutt Pattanaik, introduces the readers to these varied aspects and representations and then sets about interpreting them. He explains the different anomalies and conflicts in beliefs, as well as the symbolism, rituals and reasons behind Hindu worship.
Author : Colin Murray Parkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1134789785
All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. This handbook explains how to offer appropriate and sensitive support to those from other cultures who are dying or bereaved.
Author : Elliot Feldman
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780964374065
The first novel of Elliot Feldman’s Detroit Trilogy, with illustrations by the author, is a genre-bending tale about a son coming to terms with the death of his father, a small-time Detroit gangster. Charlie Fish’s father is found dead in a cheap motel room. Was he murdered by gamblers or by his psycho mistress and her family? Or did he kill himself? For the seven traditional days of Jewish mourning, or shiva, Charlie doesn’t stay at his invalid mother’s home and grieve with friends and family. Instead, he searches the city for answers, and in his quest relives moments from his past and reunites with shadowy figures that once terrorized him, finding out as much about himself as his black-sheep father. Detective yarn, coming-of-age story, confessional, and black comedy, this savagely funny and deeply tragic novel pits Charlie’s youth in the 1950s against the gritty backdrop of the Motor City.
Author : Erín Moure
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Authors, Canadian
ISBN : 9781554201419
"SITTING SHIVA ON MINTO AVENUE, BY TOOTS tells the story of a man who had no obituary and no funeral, and who would have left no trace if it weren't for the woman he'd called Toots, who took everything she remembered of him and--for seven days--wrote it down. In recording the tale of the little man, through memories and Google searches, quotes from Rilke and hints of recipes from Madame Jehane Benoit, Toots gives a glimpse into a entire era of urban Canada, from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Main Street, and Chinatown, to a long-ago Montreal and its entertainment between the Great Depression and Expo 67."--Back cover.
Author : Tyler Feder
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0525553037
This acclaimed graphic memoir that Kirkus calls “cathartic and uplifting” is the tale of losing a parent and what it feels like to grieve and to move forward. “I can’t recommend this kind, funny, and poignant memoir enough. It’s an intimate, life-affirming story of resilience that feels like a good friend.” —Mari Andrew, author of Am I There Yet? Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super cool mom was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Now, with a decade of grief and nervous laughter under her belt, Tyler shares the story of that gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, extremely awkward time in her life—from her mom’s first oncology appointment to her funeral through the beginning of facing reality as a motherless daughter. She shares the sting of loss that never goes away, the uncomfortable post-death firsts, and the deep-down, hard-to-talk-about feelings of the grieving process. Dancing at the Pity Party is a frank and refreshingly funny look at what it’s like to grieve—for anyone struggling with loss who just wants someone to get it.
Author : Vicki L. Weber
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0874417090
"Why does a Jewish groom break a glass at the conclusion of the wedding ceremony? Why do Jews eat only unleavened food during the eight days of Passover? What defines "kosher?" What are the rituals pertaining to the death of a loved one? The answers to these and many other questions surrounding Jewish traditions are presented in this elegant book, Tradition! Celebration and Ritual in Jewish Life"--
