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From David Horowitz: A searing yet uplifting account of his extraordinary daughter’s life -- and untimely death
A Cracking of the Heart
by David Horowitz
On a dark Thursday in March the telephone rang and I
picked up the receiver to hear my youngest child say
"Something terrible has happened," and I knew that a family
member was gone.
(continued from above)
That family member was David Horowitz's daughter
Sarah, "who was taken from us without warning in her forty-
fourth year, leaving a wake of vacancy and heartache
behind." Now, in A Cracking of the Heart, Horowitz, the
noted conservative author and activist, explores the legacy
of his extraordinary daughter's short life, and narrates
his quest for a deeper understanding of the child he lost.
A remarkable woman and gifted writer, Sarah's life was
marked by a birth condition that, while complicating and
ultimately shortening her life, never affected her dreams.
From an early age, she displayed inspiring courage in
facing her own difficulties and boundless compassion for
the underserved and overlooked in many communities, from an
autistic niece in her own family to uneducated children in
Africa.
A Cracking of the Heart chronicles the separation of
father and daughter through political and familial
conflicts, and their slow reunion. Alternately searing and
uplifting, it reconciles what could have been with what is,
taking the reader through a father's love, frustration,
admiration, and grief, and what lies beyond.
"A Cracking of the Heart will indeed crack your heart,
as it did mine. Rarely has a parent written so movingly of
the life and death of a child as David Horowitz has of his
physically disabled yet powerfully alive daughter, Sarah.
It is inconceivable to me that there is a parent—or child—
who will not be deeply affected by the wisdom and the
humanity of this book." -- Dennis Prager, nationally
syndicated radio talk show host
"Touching. . .Similar backgrounds branch off into
entirely different beliefs and lifestyles and yet with each
turning page we see that blood runs far deeper than
politics. A very engaging read." -- Robert Duvall, Academy
Award-winning actor
"Filled with the passion born of love and commitment
to family. It is a guide to family love and the triumphs of
a wonderful daughter." -- Juan Williams, Fox News
commentator and author of Eyes on the Prize
"A tikkun, a healing, of the author's relationship
with his daughter and a subtle and steady opening of the
reader's heart, enabling greater compassion for others and
self-acceptance." -- Elie Spitz, author of Does The Soul
Survive?
From A Cracking of the Heart:
I wish I could tell her that I agree with her that we
achieve a more excellent state of being when we see
ourselves in others.
I wish I could tell her that I agree with her about
the humanity of criminals, which is the complement to
Solzhenitsyn's warning that evil runs through the human
heart, and through all human hearts.
I wish I could tell her how much I regret the fact
that anger from my wounds, which I vented through my
weakness, was undoubtedly the cause of many of her
silences, and of anguish about which I can only guess. And
how sorry I am for that.
I wish I could tell her how moved I am by the example
she set and by what she was able to accomplish in the brief
time given to her.
I wish I could thank her for the affirmations of her
father that I found in the writings she left behind.
I wish I could tell her how much I miss her.
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