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Touching the Edge: A Mother's Spiritual Journey from Loss to Life

by Margaret Wurtele

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"Touching the Edge is an homage to love, loss, and the rising grace that comes when grief is transformed into peace. Margaret Wurtele's bow to her son, Phil, is a story we can all recognize within the context of each family's dance with death. Her words can heal the fall of a human heart."-Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge, Red, and Leap
"Touching the Edge is an extraordinary memoir. Margaret Wurtele writes of the most painful events a parent can ever imagine, and yet she writes so honestly, so clearly, with prose as lucid and shimmering as cut crystal, that the book shines with a quiet grace. I too have a single grown child. I read this book and trembled. But I also saw, through Margaret Wurtele's eyes, a glimpse of the light that guided her through the darkness. It was a privilege to read this book."-Susan Allen Toth, author of Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood and My Love Affair with England
"I happened to be climbing on Rainier the day that Phil was killed, and I often wondered who he was, what he was like. Now, thanks to this beautifully told account, I have a very good idea. And I have an even clearer sense of what it means to be a parent, and a child of God. This book will choke you up, but the tears will be more than worth it."-Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously
"The experience of love and loss, when shared, can become the alchemy of a rebirth of the spirit in others. In this journey to the other side of grief, Margaret Wurtele is fearlessly true to her experience of loss and makes herself available to be an agent of transformation for her readers. This is the glory of the human story: we really are 'members of one another' whether we realize it or not."-Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and author of Seasons of Grace, The Soul's Journey, and Living the Truth

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Book details

Author
Margaret Wurtele
Imprint
Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Pages
246
Formats
Hardcover
Subjects
Family & Relationships › Death, Grief, Bereavement
Religion › Christian Living
Topics
grief and loss · losing a child · bereavement memoir · spirituality · Christian living · mother's journey · death and healing
ISBN-13
9780471222873

About the author

MARGARET WURTELE is the author of three books, including the novel The Golden Hour and the memoirs Taking Root and Touching the Edge: A Mother’s Spiritual Journey from Loss to Life.

Wurtele holds a Master’s in Liberal Studies from Hamline University and built a career in arts fundraising, serving as development director for the St. Paul United Arts Fund and Managing Director for the Dayton Hudson Foundation. She also served on the boards of the Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Opera, and the Loft Literary Center, and is a co-founder of Hungry Mind Press, later known as Ruminator Press.

When she’s not writing, Wurtele and her husband own Terra Valentine Winery in California’s Napa Valley.

Margaret lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Napa Valley.

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Format: Hardcover