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2010
| Jan shares her childhood stories of growing up in the 1950's and 60's with her grandchildren and her readers. Jan's vivid, animated narratives show the innocence of youth, the joy of living in a loving family and a touch of life's unfairness. Her stories reflect a Southern heritage filled with river baptisms, playing in the woods, and of soft talk and "Sugar." She inspires her readers to remember their own stories, and perhaps to share them as well.
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2008
| Winter Body, Summer Soul is the story of Jan Kirsch's eight-year battle with ovarian cancer. She takes readers into the nightmare every cancer patient lives with: the loss of dignity; the isolation involved with treatment; the fear of dying. With little sentimentality and a bold frankness, Kirsch digs deep within, resurrecting a kind of holy grit underneath it all, even when her soul is as vulnerable as her body. Her discovery of joys and blessings in the midst of such indescribable pain is a....[more] |
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