We just received the cover of Christine O’Hagan’s memoir, THE BOOK OF KEHLS, due out in January. We love it!

We also now have a full list of blurbs–all of which are fantastic.

“While Christine O’Hagan beautifully and candidly renders detailed stories of loss and sorrow from a five-generation family history of Duchenne MD, it’s the family’s perseverance and hope, their ability to love and laugh and sustain each other, that most touched my heart.”

— Jerry Lewis, National Chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association

“Though born nearsighted, Christine Kehl O’Hagan’s childhood myopia blinded her from nothing. She came into the world with perfect vision of her family’s karmic brawl with disease, dysfunction and death. Yet The Book of Kehls is a remarkable testament to the power of faith and fortitude, of cunning and courage. After reading her gripping, don’t-you-dare-give-up memoir, you will never see your life quite the same again.”

— Saralee Rosenberg, author of the New York Times bestseller A LITTE HELP FROM ABOVE and CLAIRE VOYANT

“With this brave and unflinchingly honest memoir, Christine Kehl O’Hagan tells the story of her family, struck, again and again, by the tragedies of Muscular Dystrophy. But this is not only a chronicle of death; The Book of Kehls is a true story of life, courageously told with keen insight, grace, and humor.”

— Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of AN ALMOST PERFECT MOMENT

“I read the book straight-through. I couldn’t put it down. It broke my heart, then, at the end, my heart began to mend. The Book of Kehls is a story of shattering losses. Christine Kehl O’Hagan exposes her heart in moving and unsentimental prose and recounts her family’s story with astonishing candor. She does not shy away from the hair-pulling grief, the deep guilt, the blind rage she and her family have struggled with because of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. At the same time, this is a book of all-encompassing love and abiding loyalty. An extraordinary book for everyone and for all families that demonstrates the immeasurable capacity of the human heart to endure the unimaginable, to rise above what seemed impossible to live through.”

— Sandra Benatez, author of NIGHT OF THE RADISHES and THE WEIGHT OF ALL THINGS

“Affecting and joyous…Christine Kehl O’Hagan shares the ordinary and the extraordinary in this honest, disarming memoir of her multi-generational struggle with the progressively destructive genetic disease, muscular dystrophy… A moving testament to the power of family love and a paean to the charm and courage of the Irish.”

— Louisa Ermelino, author of THE SISTERS MALLONE

On Sunday, The Los Angeles Times ran Susan Griffin’s two-page review of Melody Ermachild Chavis’ MEENA, HEROINE of AFGHANISTAN: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Griffin raved, “This is a book not only to read but to urge others to read. It provides, in its devastating way, a measure of hope.” Congratulations, Melody!

The legendary Grace Paley writes of Melody Ermachild Chavis’ new book, MEENA, HEROINE OF AFGHANISTAN:

“Meena: a life, a country, Afghanistan, women’s lives, bravery, and determination to educate girls and young women in the face of the crudest oppression. After Meena’s murder, the women inspired by her, despite great danger, continue the work. An important book.”

The first review of Melody Ermachild Chavis’ MEENA, HEROINE OF AFGHANISTAN is out, and it’s a rave. Kirkus says the book is a “timely biography conscientiously detailing the brief but courageous life of the young woman who founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)…A vivid celebration of a contemporary heroine.”