Myra Sack Memoir ‘Fifty-seven Fridays’ Now Available
E-Motion Founder Myra Sack’s memoir, Fifty-seven Fridays, is now available from Monkfish Publishing. The memoir shares Myra and her husband Matt’s journey as their one year old daughter - Havi Lev Goldstein - is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative disease with a life expectancy of 2-4 years. In the face of such limited time together on Earth, Myra, Matt, and Havi, surrounded by their closest family and friends, learn to live, love, and grieve together through fifty-seven weeks until Havi’s death on January 20, 2021.
Through Havi’s life and in grieving her death, Myra experienced the life-sustaining impacts of movement, community, and ritual- now E-Motion’s pillars. A lifelong athlete, coach, and community-builder, Myra became certified as a Compassionate Bereavement Care provider by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, committing herself to supporting bereaved people to move with - as opposed to move on from - the hardest things.
“A wondrous, hopeful, heart-breaking witness to one of the darkest journeys imaginable… This will be one of those rare books that people re-read, think about, and encourage others to read.” —Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, author, with Oprah Winfrey, of What Happened to You
“I love this book. I absolutely could not put it down. It is beautifully written and cuts to the very heart of life and love: The story of Havi’s short, beautiful life and early death from Tay-Sachs is harrowing, heartbreaking, uplifting, profound and sometimes funny. Havi will charm the socks off you.”—Anne Lamott, New York Times best-selling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Dusk, Night, Dawn; Traveling Mercies; and Bird by Bird, as well as seven novels.
“Myra Sack’s memoir is a deeply personal look at her family’s resilience in the face of the unimaginable. Fifty-seven Fridays will help so many others find strength.” —Sheryl Sandberg, former COO, Facebook
“Required reading for any parent. The book—beautiful, propulsive, wrenching, and true—reveals the essential truth that there is no love without loss, and that we learn how to love through and within our grief.” —Emily Rapp Black, New York Times best-selling author of The Still Point of the Turning World
“This book is both a balm and a manual for anyone who has grieved—which is to say, each and every one of us. I have never read anything like it.” —Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers and A Map of Future Ruins
“Myra Sack does not just shine a light on the inextricable bond between grief and gratitude, anguish and joy, but also provides guidance on how to navigate the impossible.” —Beck Dorey-Stein, New York Times best-selling author of From the Corner of the Oval
“Death is rarely simple, and the loss of a child will never be okay, yet the love that radiates from these pages has the power to mend the broken world.” —Mirabai Starr, author of God of Love and Caravan of No Despair