Su Yon Pak is Senior Director and Associate Professor of
Integrative and Field-Based Education at Union Theological Seminary
in the City of New York. She is the coauthor of Singing the Lord's
Song in a New Land (2005) and coeditor of Leading Wisdom
(2017).
Rabbi Mychal B. Springer is the manager of Clinical Pastoral
Education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She
was the founding director of the Center of Pastoral Education at
the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she was ordained as a rabbi.
"In one of the most poignant and incisive human weaves available to
any of us, Sisters in Mourning leads us toward each other and a
larger sinewy entirety. Overlapping stories of seven diverse women
as they viscerally lay out the life and death of their mothers
become a web of much greater longing and resolve. The intricacies
of these daughters facing fierce, gentle, fearful, powerful,
hilarious, evacuated, cruel, and kind mothers is alive on every
page. If you want a compact, juicy, demanding, and gracious chance
to meet life and death head on, don't miss this book. It carries us
to a deeper and broader place to breathe deeply and take stock. The
wide-ranging, yet intensely open-hearted, authors make this about
much more than who they and their mothers are."
--Hal Taussig, poet, theologian, and editor of A New New
Testament
"The language of grief knows no boundaries. This book is a lesson
on what can unite and strengthen us as human beings."
--Jessica Nutik Zitter, author of Extreme Measures: Finding a
Better Path to the End of Life
"This very special book is a powerful rendering of the journey of
care and grief as daughters enter the landscape of their dying
mothers' final phase of life. This work is a lesson in love and
humility."
--Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
"Sisters in Mourning, from the opening pages, grounds us in the
awareness that there is sacredness and ceremony afoot and that we
are in the terrain of the heart. . . . There is a power in caring
and grieving that heals the heart and cultivates compassion,
seeding the flowering of love. This book is a masterful
'accompanying presence' to the courageous and authentic gathering
of these seven women, who tell the truth and take the deep dive
into the mystery by leaning into grace."
--DaRa Williams, psychotherapist, trainer, and meditation teacher,
Insight Meditation Society
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