Sunday, May 3, 2009

Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

In this memoir the author tells of losing her husband in an auto accident and deciding to fulfill his dream of becoming a Unitarian-Universalist minister. She managed to get through seminary while raising four children and ultimately became the chaplain for the Maine game wardens. Her role involved her in desperate searches for people lost in the woods and sometimes the retrieval of bodies. She comforts families of the victims and shores up the wardens when the work is gruesome and painful. In a straightforward way Braestrup amuses the reader with a wonderful mix of the personal and the professional.

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