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Lost in the Stacks: Alex: The Life of a Child
A bereaved father's tender portrait of his daughter, Alex.
Famed sports writer Frank Deford lost his daughter Alexandra to cystic fibrosis when she was only eight years old.
In Alex: The Life of a Child Deford describes how the disease ravishes his beautiful, lively, loving daughter and the family's struggle to cope with this devastating illness.
"When a child has cystic fibrosis," Deford writes, "she never simply lives. She must be kept alive." Despite the grimness of the subject, this is really a beautiful book about a charming, spirited child whose brief life enriched many others. Kleenex recommended.
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