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caseysilk's review against another edition
5.0
A beautiful, heartbreaking but hopeful memoir about a couple who lost their two year old daughter to a freak accident. The writing is raw and real.
lilyellyn's review against another edition
5.0
Reading a book about a child's sudden death may not have been the wisest choice for someone who is 7 months pregnant, but this book was a beautiful tribute to love and loss and hope.
schray32's review against another edition
5.0
This book is tragic, full stop. The ability of the parent to write this book so beautifully after the tragedy is what is so amazing. I feel like he did an amazing job of sharing this experience.
katscribefever's review against another edition
4.0
This memoir hit me in a way that I did NOT expect. It wasn't written from a religious standpoint, but it did have very spiritual overtones that seemed to take the author by surprise as much as it did me. Greene writes about his experience with senseless loss from a place of visceral honesty that must've taken a kind of courage I can't even imagine.
briannethebookworm's review against another edition
4.0
At only two years old, Greta Greene is involved in a freak accident while spending the day with her Grandma Susan. Her parents, Jayson and Stacy, are plagued with grief and thrust into an unimaginable situation, one that they believed only happened to other people. In the aftermath of Greta’s accident, Jayson and Stacy must learn how to navigate the emotions surrounding the loss of their daughter and find a way to continue living their lives with purpose.
I listened to this one on audio, narrated by Jayson Greene. I think the fact that the author narrated his own story made the novel more impactful for me. It was a heartbreaking story, and it was amazing that Jayson and Stacy were able to handle their loss with such grace. While the loss of a child sometimes tears parents apart, Jayson and Stacy looked to each other for support more than ever. A tragic story that gives us perspective and teaches us about the journey of grief.
I listened to this one on audio, narrated by Jayson Greene. I think the fact that the author narrated his own story made the novel more impactful for me. It was a heartbreaking story, and it was amazing that Jayson and Stacy were able to handle their loss with such grace. While the loss of a child sometimes tears parents apart, Jayson and Stacy looked to each other for support more than ever. A tragic story that gives us perspective and teaches us about the journey of grief.
knitter22's review against another edition
5.0
My husband's family lost their oldest son to malignant melanoma when he was 29-years-old, and this tragic event served to divide the family's story sharply into before-Jim-died and after-Jim-died. Every one of the remaining four siblings changed, some more markedly than others, and as you would expect, the real changes were most apparent in Jim's parents. They rarely talked about it, but I wish they were both still alive because I would give them this eloquent memoir, Once More We Saw Stars.
It's the story of how Jayson Greene and his wife Stacy lost their two-year-old daughter Greta in a horrible, completely random accident, but it's also the story of their grieving and going on. I had heard Jayson Greene interviewed and decided that I couldn't read the book because of how much sadness I thought it would contain, but Greene is a gifted writer. He manages to convey how absolutely heartbroken, bereft, and overtaken by grief he and his wife are, and yes, there is plenty of sadness, but his writing is so beautiful that there is also plenty of honesty, hope, and resilience. I especially appreciated how much of an observer he could still be, even in the depths of his grief, and how respectful and accepting he was of the different ways he and his wife expressed their grief. I think Once More We Saw Stars may well be among the top five books I read this year.
I am the reminder of the most unwelcome message in human history: Children - yours, mine - they don't necessarily live.
It's the story of how Jayson Greene and his wife Stacy lost their two-year-old daughter Greta in a horrible, completely random accident, but it's also the story of their grieving and going on. I had heard Jayson Greene interviewed and decided that I couldn't read the book because of how much sadness I thought it would contain, but Greene is a gifted writer. He manages to convey how absolutely heartbroken, bereft, and overtaken by grief he and his wife are, and yes, there is plenty of sadness, but his writing is so beautiful that there is also plenty of honesty, hope, and resilience. I especially appreciated how much of an observer he could still be, even in the depths of his grief, and how respectful and accepting he was of the different ways he and his wife expressed their grief. I think Once More We Saw Stars may well be among the top five books I read this year.
I am the reminder of the most unwelcome message in human history: Children - yours, mine - they don't necessarily live.
erinkayata's review against another edition
5.0
This book was unbelievably beautiful. Wow. What a gift to be able to take such a tragedy and turn it into a story of hope with lessons on love, death, parenthood, and more. I feel honored to have read this.