An Anthology of Loss, Healing, and Resilience

What do you do when life breaks your heart not once, but over and over again for fifty years?

In An Anthology of Loss, Healing, and Resilience, Leesa O'Donnell Tomsett opens the deeply private pages of her lifelong journal to map a journey through the formatting shadows of grief. This intimate memoir chronicles five decades of devastating, consecutive losses-crises that would test the limits of any human spirit.

The fracture begins in 1972 with a phone call: the brutal murder of her twenty-...