What We Wish Were True - Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death by Tallu Schuyler Quinn

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New York Times bestseller - facing death is the hardest thing of all, and Tallu Quinn faces hers in a way that broke and healed my heart. This book is a beautiful tribute to life, to truth, and to love. Glennon Doyle, author of the first New York Times bestseller Untamed Profound essays on nurturing life while facing a terminal diagnosis, from the dedicated humanitarian and young mother creating a vibrant legacy for us to hold on to and learn from Ann Patchett , I am holding both my hope and my grief together in the same hands. It is a loose hold, looser than I am accustomed to. My love is so much bigger than me. Nonprofit leader and minister Tallu Schuyler Quinn spent her adult life working to alleviate hunger, systemic inequality, and food waste, first as a volunteer throughout the United States and abroad, and then as the founder of the Nashville Food Project, where she supported the vibrant community work of local food justice in Middle Tennessee. That all changed just after her fortieth birthday, when she was diagnosed with stage IV glioblastoma, an aggressive form of terminal brain cancer. In What We Wish Were True, Quinn achingly grapples with the possibility of leaving behind the husband and children she adores, and what it means to live with a terminal diagnosis and still find meaning.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range - Adult
    • Hardcover
    • Dimension - 5.6" W x 8.2" H x 1" D
    • Genre - Biography
    • Publisher: Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
    • Page Count: 208
    • ISBN - 9780593442906
    • Tallu Schuyler Quinn (Author)
    • Publication Date: 04-19-2022
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3 years ago
from NC

Very Bittersweet; Honest

I received this book as a gift but would have purchased it on my own. Tallu Schuyler Quinn shared her deep and honest thoughts about her impending death from brain cancer. Reading her book gives you insight into what a phenomenal woman she was. A wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend...she was a person who set out to do whatever she could to facilitate positive change for the less fortunate, and one of the ways she did it best was to feed people. She shares her honest thoughts and fears about leaving her 2 young children, husband and other family, but also shares her deep faith in God. I read through most of this book in several hours, yet waited until the next day to finish the last little bit. I knew how the story ended but wanted to process what I had read before reading the final words. I highly recommend this book, especially to anyone traveling a similar path with a loved one.

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3 years ago

A must read

The author faces what is true with unbelievable courage, humility, humor, tenderness, uncertainty… all with great love. She will continue to travel with us as we read her words.

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3 years ago
from Fl

eautiful and yet heartbreakingly sad

Human as human could be. How can you live your life to the fullest, while also planning your own funeral? Planning the future of your business while also preparing your loved ones for the day that you will be gone, including loving your husband in the here and now and yet knowing that at some point in the future he will love someone else because you're gone. This is Tallu's story, told in an essay format, as she continues to live her life as much as she can after being diagnosed with stage IV glioblastoma cancer. It's heartbreakingly beautiful, and I can only imagine the woman she was in person from reading how she was in this book. Beautiful and yet heartbreakingly sad. May we all have her style and grace in every day of our living. *I received a copy of this book from NetGalley. This review is my own opinion*

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