Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son, by Richard Lischer
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Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son, by Richard Lischer
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Stations of the Heart is a father’s heartbreaking and hopeful story about his beloved son, in which a young man teaches his family “a new way to die” with wit, candor, and grace.As the book opens, Richard Lischer’s son, Adam, calls to tell his father, a professor of divinity at Duke University, that his cancer has returned. Adam is a charismatic young man with a promising law career, and that his wife is pregnant with their first child makes the disease’s return all the more devastating. Despite the cruel course of the illness, Adam’s growing weakness evokes in him a remarkable spiritual strength. This is the story of one last summer, lived as honestly and faithfully as possible. Deeply moving and utterly lacking in sentimentality or self-pity, Stations of the Heart is an unforgettable book about life and death and the terrible blessing of saying good-bye.
Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son, by Richard Lischer - Amazon Sales Rank: #397291 in Books
- Brand: Vintage
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Released on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .76" w x 5.17" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son, by Richard Lischer From Booklist Lischer’s only son, Adam, died of rapidly metastasizing melanoma in 2005. He was 33. Ten days later, Adam’s only child, a daughter, was born. While hardly suppressing his own feelings, Lischer resolutely focuses on Adam in this memoir provoked by the not-the-way-it’s-supposed-to-be thing that happened to him. He retreats to Adam’s precarious neonatal days and childhood coping with a mysterious neurological disorder that largely abated in his midteens. Thereafter, Adam blossomed, initially onstage, then following his mother into law practice. Marrying in his twenties, he’d just won a high-profile murder case for the defendant when a melanoma was discovered and surgically excised. Sixteen months later, the cancer was back; 94 days later, he was dead. He said he’d had a charmed life, and part of what is impressive about his questioning father’s chastely worded, clear-eyed account is that we come to appreciate that. An immensely positive and congenial person, Adam used his time well, completing conversion to Catholicism and using daily prayer rituals with his wife to bless his child in the womb. Quite extraordinary. --Ray Olson
Review Praise for Richard Lischer’s Stations of the Heart“Stations of the Heart is a book after my own heart, profound, gorgeous, deeply spiritual and human, beautifully written, heartbreaking, but also, because of the writer's wisdom and spirit, triumphant." —Anne Lamott “Emotionally honest, raw and beautiful. I read the book over a single day and often with my heart pounding. The book is remarkable for its intimate narration of a father and son story but also for that simple yet impossible thing—one human clearly seeing another.” —Darcey Steinke, author of Easter Everywhere and Sister Golden Hair “Quite extraordinary. . . Lischer’s only son, Adam, died of rapidly metastasizing melanoma in 2005. He was 33. . . He said he’d had a charmed life, and part of what is impressive about his questioning father’s chastely worded, clear-eyed account is that we come to appreciate that.” —Booklist “A fond view of a father-son relationship and a loving tribute from a minister to a son who chose a different spiritual path in his life and to his death.” —Kirkus Reviews “In this tender, searching, resigned memoir and tribute to [his son] Adam, Lischer relives the final three-month journey that he, his wife, and [Adam’s wife] traveled with Adam, recalling with grace and humor memories of Adam in his elementary school days, his college days, and his quest to change the world around as a modern-day Atticus Finch.” —Publishers Weekly “Stations of the Heart deserves a place alongside these classics [John Gunther’s inspirational Death Be Not Proud and Nicholas Wolterstorff’s anguished Lament for a Son] for many reasons. It is elegant without excess, personal without self-absorption, profoundly emotional without sentimentality. . . . It looks beyond the one man’s death to the death we all will face. It raises religious and philosophical questions without offering pat answers.” —Christian Century “An inspirational memoir . . . Lischer is a fine writer—self-aware, humorous and unstinting in describing the outrage of a son dying before his father.” —The Toronto Star "By the story’s close, you'll have laughed, prayed, shaken your fist at the sky, and wept along with the author and his family. Lyrical, wise, and full of warmth, Stations of the Heart accomplishes what only the best memoirs can: it bears witness to the unimaginable and gives voice to the inarticulable.” —David McGlynn, author of A Door in the Ocean"As he grieved over the loss of his son, Richard Lischer gradually discovered that he had been given a new role — as the interpreter of his own son’s death. In this tender and loving book, Lischer does indeed become an interpreter, not only of his son’s death but also of the fragile and beautiful relationships that make life both a peril and a gift for us all. Lischer is a faithful witness whose truthful and searing testimony evokes memory, provokes tears, and finally points powerfully toward hope." —Thomas G. Long, author of What Shall We Say? Evil, Suffering, and the Crisis of Faith
About the Author
RICHARD LISCHER has taught for more than thirty years at Duke Divinity School. His many books include the prize-winning The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America and an earlier memoir, Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery. He and his wife live in Orange County, North Carolina.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. A book for those who dare to care By G. Miller We all handle grief differently. Some repress it, some exploit it, only the brave dare to feel it and let it teach them new truth about what it means to be a human being. This book, written by a clergyman, about the death of his 33 year old son, is the brave story of a family that faced death with compassion, sincerity, aching pain and triumphant faith and transformation. Having been through this kind of grief myself, and virtually at the same time as the Lischers, I lived it all over again. Often I had to put the book down until I could dare to face it again.This is a book for people of faith, but it is for people of a particular kind of faith. This will hardly satisfy the dogmatic. It is not out to paste band aids over the wounds of fear and loss. It faces hard questions and learns to live with a faith that depends solely on holding hands in the center of darkness. I was deeply moved by this journey of 93 days while a young man comes to terms with mortality as well as the approaching birth of his first child. His practice of his faith, the daily visit he and his wife make to their church to receive the sacrament, his sense of humor and his determination to do whatever it took to hold off those last days until he could see his daughter and hold her in his arms - all witnessed by his parents and affirmed by them - is the story of a family that won far more than our admiration and respect. They showed me how much we all can learn from this - the final chapter we all must live. Beautifully written, candid, appropriately light-hearted at times yet honestly frank, we discover a new way to affirm there is life beyond death, a life far more deeply satisfying and real than we could have imagined.This book goes on my shelf with a select few that have changed my life. It may be a while before I can pick it up again, but read it again I know I will.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Destined to Become A Spiritual Classic By Frank Honeycutt Rick Lischer spent six years writing this profoundly engaging book describing the last 95 days of his son's life. The loving care in phrasing shows on every page. Accessible, touching, truthfully agonizing, and grounded in the power of Christian community, "Stations of the Heart" will be read decades from now by those trying to make sense of suffering visited upon those who die too young. This is the best book I've read this year of any genre. Buy it for someone you know whose faith has been rattled by death. Buy it for anyone honestly searching for what it means to believe amidst illness and pain. Buy it for the unexpected beauty somehow distilled from a faithful family's accompaniment of a dying and cherished son.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Indelible imprint By mak3112 I don't think I can do justice to the beauty of this searing memoir. Indeed, it feels selfish and cruel to call something so personal, beautiful. And yet, that is what this memoir is--an honest, heart-wrenching story of not only being a father, but being mortal. It's impact is indelible prayerto my struggling faith. Mercy, indeed.
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