Fifty Seven Fridays When their daughter Havi was a year old, Myra Sack and her physician husband Matt Goldstein noticed delays in her physical development. After physical therapy was prescribed with no noticeable progress, and more developmental milestones were missed, Myra and Matt, driven to find answers, sought out pediatric specialists. On December 17, 2019, their world was shattered. At fifteen months old, Havi was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative disease that can be revealed through genetic testing but was to the couple. Havi was given just a year to live. FIFTY-SEVEN FRIDAYS: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way ( Monkfish Publishing) is a memoir of Havi’s short life and her parents’ poignant and tragic journey to help their daughter live and die. In revealing the beauty and fullness that can be discovered by learning to coexist with grief, Myra Sack offers the reader nothing short of “an act of grace”
For Myra Sack, writing FIFTY-SEVEN FRIDAYS was at once a means through which to process her grief, and to create a record of Havi’s life that honored her enduring love. For the reader, it is also a roadmap for facing profound loss. Review by (Beverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys).
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