This heart-wrenching literary nonfiction book by author Sarah Wilson follows the young mother's year-long journey to try to save her newborn infant's life. During an ultrasound late in her pregnancy, Wilson learns that her baby will be born with a congenital heart defect. She and her husband had already experienced heartbreak after heartbreak before receiving this devastating news. When Lillian Eileen is born, she would need several heart surgeries and numerous other procedures to save her life. The author takes readers through each step of her journey, from trying to get pregnant, to suffering a miscarriage, to watching helpless as her daughter needs a donor to step forward in order to live. Now a "heart mom," Wilson writes with honesty and intense emotion as she records every detail of her little heart warrior's struggle to live. Make sure you have a box of tissues!
