My Name As A Prayer (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: modeling school, Lord's Prayer

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A wonderful book! Hill has huge talent...very sharp at the detail level, exceptionally deft dialogue, daring self-revelations...a magnificent job." -- Robert Franklin, founder of McFarland & Co., publishers

A profoundly moving work, worthy of national attention. A must read for all who will one day face the beautiful and yet painful final journey with their parents. ------New York Times best-selling author William Forstchen

A wonderful book! Hill has huge talent...very sharp at the detail level, exceptionally deft dialogue, daring self-revelations...a magnificent job. --Robert Franklin, founder of McFarland & Co., publishers

An observant, wry, loving and at times sentimental memoir about caring for her mother, an irrepressible Charlotte charm schoolteacher, during the last year of her mother's life. --Rob Neufield, Asheville Citizen Times

Product Description

An intimate story of the author's journey as her mother -- an irrepressible Southern charm school owner -- moves into a retirement village. A tender romance accompanies this slice-of-life book. There are many hilarious scenes as the author brings readers into a series of new and sometimes mysterious experiences.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: Live A Little Books, LLC; 1 edition (December 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979135508
• ISBN-13: 978-0979135507
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,348,446 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply affecting memoir of a mother's passing, December 27, 2006

By	Benjamin Bernstein "musictospare" (Asheville, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This memoir's clear, heartfelt writing touched me deeply. The author nearly had me crying several times as she traced the steady arc of her mother's gradual, challenging, and ultimately beautiful process of transitioning from body to Spirit. Hill also does an outstanding job of "showing, not telling," which put me right into the heart of her mother's transition and Hill's own varying responses to the process. I could detect no padding or fat; one of the book's great strengths is its Hemingwayesque economy of language. This also makes it a fairly quick read, which only serves to concentrate its emotional impact.

"My Name as a Prayer" is courageous, important and timely. It has the power to touch many hearts, enlighten many minds, and heal many souls. Hill is a truly gifted writer, and I loved this book!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Listening to the silence from the other side, February 26, 2007

By	Bruce K. Washburn - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My Name As A Prayer is a book you will want to read more than once, as I intend to do. But first I have to get copies to my sister and my sister-in-law, for I think this book will speak especially to mothers and daughters. However, as a former hospice volunteer and as someone who was present during the months my parents were dying and being cared for by hospice, I find that Sheridan Hill's book also has much to teach even those of us--male or female--who have already seen our parents or other loved ones pass on. I remember once when I was alone with a dying woman--or so I thought--and listening to her have a long conversation with unseen others in the room...and the peace it brought her. I could only hear her side of the conversation; there was only silence when she wasn't speaking, but it was surely "holy silence" wherein she could hear what she needed to hear, even though I couldn't. Sheridan Hill's thoughts on "holy silence" and the need to allow the dying to be present (i.e., not overly medicated) at their own deaths are insightful, I think, and worth the price of the book alone. Of course, simply being present, via the book, with Ms. Hill to hear her beautiful story is worth the price of the book, too.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Praise for My Name As A Prayer, February 7, 2007

By	Katey Schultz - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sheridan Hill combines the grace of storytelling with the immediacy of first-person narrative to share the true story of her mother's difficult transition into terminal illness and eventually death. The story is honest to the core and painfully familiar. Anyone who is preparing to guide a loved one through a similar transition, or who has done so in the past, will appreciate and learn from this honest, insightful memoir.