Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon Audiobook

Quotes

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• Raw, rough and wrenchingly tender....An almost universal story of love and determination and strength.

  — USA Today

• An extraordinary memoir.

  — O, the Oprah Magazine

• Beautifully written...it will stay with you long after you finish.

  — Good Housekeeping

• Riveting.

  — Tampa Bay Times

• This book is a tender, fierce and breathtaking miracle.

  — People

• 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

• 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

• A twisting, harrowing, at times painful but powerful memoir, fiercely reported and written with exquisite sensitivity and openness.

  — Dallas News

• [A] mom must-read....Juniper will capture your attention and heart from its difficult beginning to its hard-won happy ending.

  — Parents

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• These two excellent journalists bring their keen eyes to the most personal and wrenching of stories. A powerful book.

  — Tracy Kidder