"Fortunately for the reading public, Linda Madison is a poetic survivor, bringing pictures of old-fashioned sweat and tears to life in modern- day America. Under the Weeping Willow Tree gave me permission to feel the horror and clarity of courage, the confusion from physical and emotional frailty, not from one's own choosing.

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. Learning and seeking for her is living today for tomorrow, though, not just any old day of the week.

Linda knows that on any given day as a single mother of four she might have enough bread on the table, and another day she might not; she knows that one day you take your baby to the doctor for care, and another day they take you. Imagine yourself sitting beneath a weeping willow tree, listening, embraced by its shimmering, gray-green leaves and drooping summer branches, enveloped in Linda Madison's tale, true and not to be believed.

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. Beautifully rooted, reading Under the Weeping Willow Tree will nourish you day and your week.

Give yourself the opening to deepen to your own wonder. "-Roma Guy, MSW; health commissioner, City and County of San Francisco; California Chair, Health Committee, California Women's Agenda San Francisco.