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Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year, or when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges.

With or Without Me is an unsparing and eloquent critique of religion. Yet Esther Maria Magnis’s ire is merely the beginning of an exceptional journey toward belief and God—a journey punctuated by personal losses retold with intense immediacy. She fiercely dismantles both the clichéd phrases she’s heard in church and the vague progressive pieties of her parents’ generation.

Un diagnóstico lo cambia todo. Una hija acompaña a su padre en el tramo final de su vida mientras enfrenta el amor, la pérdida y la despedida. Esta memoria íntima explora cómo la vida continúa, e incluso encuentra belleza y sentido, cuando el mundo parece detenerse.

This audiobook is about my personal still-birth experience; an experience that was both harrowing and beautiful in equal measure. An experience that I would, never-in-a million-years, have predicted I could heal from, but I did. I really wanted to believe that life could be so pointlessly cruel, I mean where’s the sense in a full-term baby dying? But, I just couldn’t ignore all the selfless, kind, and all-round beautiful people that came my way. Those people paved my way to recovery.