Hope Is a Bright Star
A Mother's Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again

I read this memoir with my heart in my throat. This is a mother’s love letter to her young daughter, Elizabeth. It is an achingly beautiful and heart wrenching account of a brave young girls fight, to beat the rare cancer that ultimately takes her life, at fourteen years old, as told by the mother a......more

In Faith Wilcox’s amazing memoir of tragedy and healing, she proves that she was well-named. Without faith in the future, faith in your strength to endure, faith in your ability to recover, and above all, faith in love, how could a mother withstand the loss of a child and her own struggle with cance......more

Whenever I read a memoir of profound loss—like losing a young teenage daughter to an aggressive form of cancer—I know that grief will be center-stage like a place-holder that quickly fills the space of the missing loved one. I also tend to reflect on Max Porter's novel "Grief is a Thing with Feather......more

"Compassion, at its core, is about suffering, suffering with another..." So once said a minister to author Faith Wilcox in this moving book about a mother who loses her daughter to cancer but who learns how to live again through the example set by her dying daughter and by the love and support of th......more