Filling Her Shoes

Name: Filling Her Shoes
Brand: She Writes Press
SKU: 342399
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Filling Her Shoes

A Memoir of an Inherited Family

Betsy Graziani Fasbinder

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On the day that she decided to marry a widower—also a long-time friend—Betsy Graziani Fasbinder knew that she wasn’t only gaining a husband, she was inheriting a son. Unlike many stepmothers, Betsy didn’t have to struggle with an ex, or court battles, or the weekend shuffle between houses—but she did have to navigate living in the shadow of a young mother taken too soon, to honor the memory of her son’s first mother, and to become the kind of parent and partner she herself wanted to be. Over time this family would learn how love’s roots were formed in their shared losses, and how the new family love and joy they created together would become the richest kind of inheritance.

Genres

Personal MemoirsBiography & AutobiographyFamily & RelationshipsAll Other NonfictionAdoption & Fostering

Pages256

Released2017

LanguageEnglish

PublisherShe Writes Press

ISBN9781631521997

SellerSimon & Schuster

About the author(s)

Betsy Graziani Fasbinder explores the unending complications of people living, working, and loving one another. As a practicing therapist for more than twenty years, she has been witness to the heartbreak, healing, and heroism of people from all walks of life. She strives to create stories that bring the emotional truths she’s experienced and observed to the pages in all of her writing. Betsy has been awarded the Floyd Salas Award for Fiction, and has been honored with a Jack London award and two East of Eden awards for both fiction and memoir pieces. Four of her works have been produced as Readers’ Theater in the historic Nevada Theater in Nevada City, California. She is the co-producer of The Women’s Writing Salon in Nevada County. Fire & Water is her first novel. Betsy lives nestled in the soft hills of Marin County, California with her husband, one son on the launch pad, and one out on his own in a neighboring town.

Reviews

2018 IPPY Gold Medal Winner in Best Regional E-Book—Non-Fiction 2018 International Book Awards Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir 2017 Foreword Indies Finalist in Adult Nonfiction—Family & Relationships “A memoir filled with truth, brutal honesty, poignancy, and heart. It is a love story, a simple love story filled with massive moments; moments that will leave you breathless.”
—Amy Ferris, author, Marrying George Clooney, Confessions From a Midlife Crisis

“Readers will love Filling Her Shoes, a big-hearted memoir. Fasbinder tenderly takes us through years of love and loss constantly weaving tattered threads of a family together into a tapestry of joy, commitment, and, ultimately, renewal.”
—Linda Schreyer, TV and screenwriter, co-author of Tears and Tequila

“Filling Her Shoes is a memoir that will make your heart sing, even if you've never been a step-mother. You'll feel happier when you read this book, your faith confirmed in the best of our humanity and the power of love.”
—Linda Joy Myers, President/Founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers, Author of Don’t Call Me Mother and The Journey of Memoir

“With breathtaking honesty, Fasbinder chronicles her family’s messy and imperfect journey of becoming a family under the most unlikely of circumstances, and dares our cynical selves to believe that hearts shattered by loss can be made whole again.”
—Hollye Dexter, Activist, author of Fire Season: My Journey from Ruin to Redemption

"Fasbinder writes with a graceful honesty that is both refreshing and timeless. Hers is a hopeful, heartfelt journey where deep laughs alternate with moments of profound loss. A beautiful and inspiring testament to the resilience and healing power of family."
—Booklist