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“This is what happens when two great writers join together to tell something really worth telling. This book, of a life barely there, breaks your heart on one page, and makes you want to pump your fist in the air just a few paragraphs later. It is an achingly lovely book, all the lovelier because it is true.”
— Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
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“Kelley and Thomas French are two of America’s best narrative journalists, and here is their most important story yet. Juniper is an astonishingly intimate and honest account of a mother, a father, and a complicated baby whose very existence calls into question every easy assumption about what a life means. This is a deeply moving and meaningful book.”
— David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Thank You for Your Service
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“This tender and ferocious book offers all of the taut, gritty storytelling of the journalists who wrote it—and all of the lovesick hope of the parents they’re becoming. I read it cover to cover in a single breathless, nail-bitten evening.”
— Catherine Newman, author of Catastrophic Happiness
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“This surprising, enlightening book transcends categories. Heartfelt as a memoir, richly researched as narrative journalism, and as propulsive and literary as a novel, Juniper offers the rewards of all great books. It alters and expands your understanding of being human.”
— Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial
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Raw, rough and wrenchingly tender....An almost universal story of love and determination and strength.
— USA Today
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An extraordinary memoir.
— O, the Oprah Magazine
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Beautifully written...it will stay with you long after you finish.
— Good Housekeeping
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Riveting.
— Tampa Bay Times
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This book is a tender, fierce and breathtaking miracle.
— People
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Two skilled journalists collaborate on the most personal of stories: their extremely premature daughter's struggle to survive....A fierce and fact-filled love story with few holds barred.
— Kirkus Reviews
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I probably would have read Juniper in one sitting, but I had to stop because I was crying too hard....The Frenches make their fear, panic and grief real....A well-told, fast-paced and emotionally affecting memoir.
— Terri Rupar, Washington Post
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This is what happens when two great writers join together to tell something really worth telling. This book, of a life barely there, breaks your heart on one page, and makes you want to pump your fist in the air just a few paragraphs later. It is an achingly lovely book, all the lovelier because it is true.
— Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
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This surprising, enlightening book transcends categories. Heartfelt as a memoir, richly researched as narrative journalism, and as propulsive and literary as a novel, JUNIPER offers the rewards of all great books. It alters and expands your understanding of being human.
— Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial
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This tender and ferocious book offers all of the taut, gritty storytelling of the journalists who wrote it--and all of the lovesick hope of the parents they're becoming. I read it cover-to-cover in a single breathless, nail-bitten evening.
— Catherine Newman, author of Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy
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Kelley and Thomas French are two of America's best narrative journalists, and here is their most important story yet. JUNIPER is an astonishingly intimate and honest account of a mother, a father, and a complicated baby whose very existence calls into question every easy assumption about what a life means. This is a deeply moving and meaningful book.
— David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Thank You for Your Service
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These two excellent journalists bring their keen eyes to the most personal and wrenching of stories. A powerful book.
— Tracy Kidder
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A twisting, harrowing, at times painful but powerful memoir, fiercely reported and written with exquisite sensitivity and openness.
— Dallas News
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[A] mom must-read....Juniper will capture your attention and heart from its difficult beginning to its hard-won happy ending.
— Parents