TERRY JONES-BRADY

A Mosaic Heart: Reshaping the Shards of a Shattered Life
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TERRY JONES-BRADY, A native of Virginia, discovered and nourished her acting talent growing up in California and majoring in dramatic art at UC Berkeley. In pursuit of a career in the theater, she threw herself into acting, dancing, and voice instruction in New York with some of the luminaries of the day and went on to many promising roles as she traveled the country performing. A chance engagement with a repertory theater in Virginia brought Terry back to her home state, where she settled into domestic life with the husband and family about whom this book was written. 

Former teacher of students with learning disabilities, poet, master gardener, certified spiritual director and recipient of the prestigious William Brenner Nonfiction Prize at the Hampton Roads Annual Writers' Conference in 2010, Terry now lives in the bucolic woods of southeastern Virginia with husband Kevin Brady, their English bulldog, Mia, and Johnnie, a feisty cockatiel.
Visit Terry's website: www.terryjones-brady.com 
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Terry's book signing at Prince.
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A MOSAIC HEART is about resilience and transformation…and the opportunities that suffering offers for new-found wisdom and spiritual growth. When The author's two daughters, Heather and Holly, both born with the genetic disease cystic fibrosis, were diagnosed with this dreaded killer, Terry and her husband began a journey of nurturing and discovery that is both profound and inspirational.

This is a true story of two loving parents and their wonderful girls who exhibited the strength and wisdom that children with life-threatening illnesses often possess. Though Terry’s daughters did not survive, the story does not end there. The Broken heart can be powerful—and this book beautifully illustrates that message in Terry’s life, as she survived not two but three deaths—her entire family—grieved, searched for understanding, and, finally, found love and happiness again.

This is a book that will speak to your heart and offer you hope that life—with all its joys and tragedies—is meant to be lived fully, faithfully, and lovingly.