Joslin Memorial Library Book Event

Join author Steve Rand, former Harwood English teacher and former Director for Civic Engagement of Norwich University, for an author event at Joslin Memorial Library featuring his recently released memoir, A Mother's Prayer.

A Mother's Prayer is a touching memoir of adolescence in 1980s amid grief and loss. Rand's carefully selected anecdotes form a picture of his childhood and young adulthood, his mother's own youth, and the bittersweet realities of growing up amidst the looming loss of a mother. Sprinkled with a vivid sense of time and place, Rand paints a gripping and at times joyful account of the in-between moments a family can face in great struggle.

Rachel Wylie-Fenton, author of Where The Love Lies, will talk about grief, and how it stays with us throughout our lives, changing shape as time passes. As Wylie-Fenton  says, “sometimes our grief  is close to the surface, and sometimes it quietly surprises us. There is room for all of it.”