Ridgway Public Library

Various kids describe their feelings and how to cope with their mothers' breast cancer.

Ann Lord, ill, and only vaguely conscious of what is going on around her, travels back in her mind to the memory of a summer weekend forty years earlier when she fell in love.

"Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the Bible. Then her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirty-eight, and, 'it was like throwing gasoline on the Holy Spirit.' Stirred by her mother, the family committed...