Farther Up the Mountain: The Death of a Son: A Mother's Journey from Heartbreak to Healing - Tapa blanda

"Farther Up the Mountain" deals head-on with the spiritual crisis of losing a child. The author's 28-year-old son Charles, mountaineer, environmentalist, poet and artist, died tragically in a mysterious car crash in Oregon. Four months later she began writing him letters. The letters became a book. Campbell's memoir is an account of the complicated, mysterious, heartbreaking and at the same time luminous aspects of death and a little-understood mental disease-bi-polar affective disorder (manic-depression). It's a mother's portrait of a young man and his generation, and a family story of coping with grief and past losses. Her son's moving poetry emerges as a remarkable counterpoint to the author's prose account.

"The story grabs you and doesn't let you go. I couldn't put it down."-Sharon Doubiago, award-winning poet and memoirist.