Once More We Saw Stars

A Memoir

Ranked #33 in Fatherhood, Ranked #85 in Grief

Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable.

But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter’s trauma and the hours leading up to her death, it quickly becomes a narrative that is as much about hope and healing as it is about grief and loss. Jayson...
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Puja Patel Loss and grief is intimately different for everyone, and the lasting beauty of @Jayson_Greene’s stunning book is that it lays bare the constant presence of grief and how it manifests as despair, anger, joy, and love. It helped me through a tough time, and I’m grateful he wrote it https://t.co/zYwrZl9bQp (Source)

Rob Delaney I've read Jayson's book. I am unable to say much more than I would be grateful to anyone who read it. Love to his family. https://t.co/gGvWBLJeoG (Source)


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