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The Way They Change Things |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Judith Bell |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,888 Words, 10,608 Characters |
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I WILL SING LIFE
Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
Larry Berger, Dahlia Lithwick, and Seven Campers
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992
207 pp., $22.95
A friend of mine whose teenage sons had begun to get the better of her recently began volunteering as an aide in a children's hospice. "I needed," she said simply, "to gain some perspective." The experience has been one she mostly holds to herself. "We lost one today," she may quietly say when the unstoppable loss that is the nature of such work spills over into her regular life. Recently, at such a moment, one of the sons in question loped through the room, doing his best to ignore the two middle-aged women occupying his sphere. My friend's eyes locked on her near-grown child with a fierce possessiveness that found me suddenly studying the carpet, an uncomfortable witness to this private moment of compressed parental emotion.
I am not as brave as my friend, who weekly enters a world where there are only endings. I live, as most of us do, in one where death is h...
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... a few months after his chapter was completed. With this volume having to do with what Newman calls "the strengthening of hope, the compression of wisdom," Berger and Lithwick have given us in no small measure the joyful tribute to life discovered in the lives of seven remarkable children. The stories beckon with uncommon courage and vibrant spirit. To read them is to be moved and challenged.
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