NotesFromtheVoices

This month I have selected two books from my stack to review — “Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life” by Carol Smith and “Later” by Stephen King. Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life There is no template for grieving. Everyone grieves in their own way. On Tuesday, my mother would have been 64 years old, but she died of breast cancer in September 2010. I am still grieving after 10 years. It was one of the reasons I was interested in this book. Since the day her son Christopher was born, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Carol Smith did everything to make his life easier. He was born with a congenital developmental defect that blocked his urinary tract and damaged his kidneys. With lots of medical help and a kidney transplant, he survived. Smith gave up her newspaper job and moved to California from Seattle to get remedial therapy and support for him. Things were going well. Then suddenly Christopher was dead at seven. And Smith was left alone to cross t