<blockquote><p><strong>'After my infant twins died, I couldn&rsquo;t find anything on the shelves at the bookstore that was actually honest.'</strong></p></blockquote>

<p><em>I found books about grief, sure. Books written by psychologists on the stages of grief and books that assured me that I would find my answers in prayer. This isn&rsquo;t meant to replace those. Those books are necessary, but in the raw, emotional weeks and months after losing my twins, what I wanted to know more than anything was that I was not crazy. &nbsp;</em></p>
<p>Christy, a fourth-grade teacher, and her husband, Brian, are raising two adorable children ages 4 and 7 in Onalaska, WI. But Christy has two other children&mdash;twins&mdash;who died shortly after being born at 21 weeks.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Christy&rsquo;s captivating memoir about her hopes, her dreams,<strong> her loss, her grief, and ultimately, her healing,</strong> is a poignantly powerful and brutally honest account of what happens when tragedy hits. We never think it&rsquo;s going to happen to us. We never think it will happen today. But it does, and it happened to Christy. In an effort to find solace, Christy tried Googling, &ldquo;What do I do when my baby dies?&rdquo; Unfortunately, there just aren&rsquo;t any good resources out there&mdash;at least not any that are truly honest, not sugar-coated with clich&eacute;s. &ldquo;Almost a Mother&rdquo; is Christy&rsquo;s way of reaching those out to those who have experienced a horrible loss of any kind, of any magnitude, in the hope of building a community of support and love.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em><strong>And, in her words, &ldquo;I just wanted to know that I wasn&rsquo;t crazy because I wanted to punch the pregnant lady at Target in the face.&rdquo;</strong></em></p>