{"product_id":"little-matches-a-memoir-of-finding-light-in-the-dark-isbn-9780063027763","title":"Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Gripping and true in all ways. This fine, affecting memoir will stay with me for a very long time.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Female Persuasion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“In this vividly written memoir novelist O’Hara shares a painful but ultimately beautiful account of her daughter Caitlin’s life with cystic fibrosis. . . . Her compelling story will resonate with anyone seeking a light in the darkest depths of grief.”—Library Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of \u003cem\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Boy,\u003c\/em\u003e an emotionally raw and inspiring memoir that illuminates a mother’s grief over the loss of her adult child and considers the hope of soulful connections that transcend the boundary of life and death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen their only child was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at the age of two, Maryanne O’Hara and her husband were told that Caitlin could live a long life or be dead in a matter of months. Thirty-one years later, Caitlin lost her battle with this devastating disease following an excruciating two-year wait on the transplant list and a last-minute race to locate a pair of healthy lungs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sudden spiral of events left Maryanne in an existential crisis, searching to find an answer to the eternal question: Why we are here? During her final years, Caitlin had become a source of wisdom and comfort for her mother—the partner with whom she shared a deep spiritual quest to understand what it meant to have a soul. After Caitlin’s passing, Maryanne began to notice signs—poignant, persistent synchronicities that seemed to lean toward proof of Caitlin’s enduring presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving together a series of interconnected meditations with illuminating glimpses of life rendered via text messages, e-mails, and journal entries, \u003cem\u003eLittle Matches\u003c\/em\u003e is a profound reflection on life and death, motherhood, the pain of chronic uncertainty, and finding inspiration in the unexpected sparks that light our way through the darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“This luminous, harrowing memoir is a tale of a mother’s devotion and grief, yes, but when I closed \u003cem\u003eLittle Matches,\u003c\/em\u003e tears standing still in my eyes, I was left with a sense that I had met not one but two remarkable spirits, my world enlarged.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDani Shapiro, author of Inheritance and Hourglass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A raw yet comforting journal of grief, pain, and sparks of hope.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eA brave exploration into the power and depth of what it means to love and be loved, and the grief that is both the cost and measure of that love.  It is a book about hope, revealing the light that continues to connect us to all those we’ve loved.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Lynne Jackson, NYT bestselling author of Signs and The Light Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this vividly written memoir novelist O’Hara shares a painful but ultimately beautiful account of her daughter Caitlin’s life with cystic fibrosis. . . . Her compelling story will resonate with anyone seeking a light in the darkest depths of grief.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bracingly honest and deeply comforting.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA People magazine Book of the Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eThe bravest and most generous of memoirs, \u003cem\u003eLittle Matches\u003c\/em\u003e is the diary of your dearest friend, intimate and universal, an exquisitely written poem of deepest love, grief, and devotion. This is a journey of the soul. I feel haunted by these pages and profoundly blessed to have read them.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Genova, author of Still Alice and Every Note Played\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“To the stalwart scientists and physicians who go to battle in service of the seriously sick, who peer into microscopes and imagine the unseeable deep within to discover cures, I urge you to pick up your heads and look through the lens of Maryanne O'Hara's \u003cem\u003eLittle Matches\u003c\/em\u003e to fully understand your power, to know what is at stake in your pursuits to transform hope to joy, tears to laughter, and to feel the weight of what happens if we fail.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatrick R. 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This is a fine, affecting memoir that will stay with me for a very long time.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion and The Interestings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Here is love in ink, and you will feel it: a book about life, including death.  O’Hara’s great achievement is showing us that inside of human connection, everything has a home—despair, hope, fear, beauty, decay. It turns out that death poses no threat to love.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eB. J. 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