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In Dana's Honor

In Dana's Honor

Songa, Atieno

Paperback

Self-Help

ISBN13: 9798701061857
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Somewhere in Siaya, Dana is born. She lives, loves and thrives. Having had twelve children, she is thrust back into parenthood at the age of fifty-nine (59) when her husband and adult children die within a span of five years. Her children leave behind orphaned grandchildren that she must raise. Despite her own heartbreak, she dusts herself and embraces the new role; never perfectly, but still, it shields the grandchildren and provides a form of solace whenever they need it. Dana takes her final bow on July 26th, 2012, and the grandchildren, most of them now grown, must forge a way forward without her.In this book titled, In Dana's Honor, Atieno, who is Dana's maternal granddaughter, puts together seventy-seven of her own personal quotes and passages to symbolize each year that Dana graced this earth; blessing, nurturing, praying for and loving her grandchildren in a bid to honor and celebrate Dana. The preface provides a backstory into the life and times of Dana. In celebration of the extra six months that she lived among us, itself a bonus, Atieno incorporates a few stories of the times that she shared with her grandmother. Through the lens of a granddaughter, one gets a glimpse at the life and times of Dana, as she attempts to navigate through her own heartache and lead a household that was shared by at least eleven orphans in her care.

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