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Dream new dreams : reimagining my life after loss / Jai Pausch.
In Dream New Dreams, Jai Pausch shares her own story for the first time: her emotional journey from wife and mother to full-time caregiver, shuttling between her three young children and Randy's bedside as he sought treatment far from home; and then to widow and single parent, fighting to preserve a sense of stability for her family, while coping with her own grief and the challenges of running a household without a partner. Jai paints a vivid, honest portrait of a vital, challenging relationship between two strong people who faced a grim prognosis and the self-sacrificing decisions it often required. As she faced life without the husband she called her "magic man," Jai learned to make herself a priority to create a new life of hope and happiness--as she puts it, to "feel a spark of my own magic beginning to flicker." Dream New Dreams is a powerful story of grief, healing, and newfound independence. With advice artfully woven into an intimate, beautifully written narrative, Jai's story will inspire not only the legions of readers who made The Last Lecture a bestseller, but also those who are embarking on a journey of loss and renewal themselves.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307888501 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0307888509 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780307888518 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xi, 228 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Archetype, c2012.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Living the dream -- Shattered dreams -- Face the problem -- Shuttling between my husband and my children -- Help! I'm in over my head -- The physiological toll of caregiving -- Cancer blindsides us again -- The magic of the last lecture -- Unique challenges caregivers face -- Decisions -- Talking to children about cancer and death -- Grieving -- The year of firsts -- Untethering our house from the past -- Single parenting is exhausting -- Taking care of me -- The magic hasn't gone out of our lives -- (Not) dating -- Giving back: pancreatic cancer advocate -- Dreaming new dreams. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Terrace Public Library | 616.9943 Pau (Text) | 35151000309583 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2012 April #2
A touching memoir of grief. The author is the widow of Randy Pausch, who wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture and died of pancreatic cancer in 2008. Far from being a mere add-on to her late husband's book, this work stands on its own as an eloquent testimony of a caregiver. Pausch begins by recounting the beginnings of her relationship with her husband, a promising professor at Carnegie Mellon, while she was finishing a doctorate at the University of North Carolina. They married, started a family and were living a normal life when Randy was diagnosed with cancer. Despite surgery and chemotherapy, the cancer recurred, and his case was deemed terminal. The Last Lecture made Randy's final months unusual, but the publication of the book and the activity regarding it are largely in the background of the overall story. With her husband's death, the author was left to parent three young children and to find new direction in her life while in her early 40s. Pausch does an admirable job of narrating the story of her husband's illness, death and its aftermath, keeping the reader continually engaged and drawn into her world. Most notably, Pausch manages to share her pain and heartache at an intensely personal level without ever sounding self-absorbed or asking for the reader's pity. She makes it clear that her years of marriage and family life overshadow even the pain of losing her husband, and as the book closes, she focuses on the importance of rebuilding her life and, as she puts it, dreaming new dreams. Readers familiar with cancer or with terminal illness in general will find a source of comfort and meaning in Pausch's story, while others will take away a lesson in how people can endure in the face of anxiety and grief. Copyright Kirkus 2012 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
