She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earthpersonality as she campaigned for her husband, thenvice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions asshe valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosedonly days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds ofsimilarly grieving families when her own son, Wade, died tragicallyat age sixteen in 1996. Now she shares her experiences in SavingGraces, an incandescent memoir of Edwards’ trials, tragedies, andtriumphs, and of how various communities celebrated her joys andlent her steady strength and quiet hope in darker times.
Edwards writes about growing up in a military family, where shelearned how to make friends easily in dozens of new schools andneighborhoods around the world and came to appreciate theunstinting help and comfort naval families shared. Edwards’reminiscences of her years as a mother focus on the support she andother parents offered one another, from everyday favors to theultimate test of her own community’s strength—their compassionateresponse to the death of the Edwards’ teenage son, Wade, in 1996.Her descriptions of her husband’s campaigns for Senate, president,and vice president offer a fascinating perspective on the groups,great and small, that sustain our democracy. Her fight with breastcancer, which stirred an outpouring of support from women acrossthe country, has once again affirmed Edwards’ belief in the powerof community to make our lives better and richer.
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