Saving Graces

The wife of a presidential hopeful, a soccer mom, a dedicated community leader, and a lawyer, Elizabeth Edwards is also a woman of her own. Bernadette Dunne portrays her feistiness, courage, and down-to-earth zest as she reveals what enables her to survive the blows that slam into what she calls "ordinary days," in particular, the death of her 16-year-old son and her diagnosis of breast cancer four days before the 2004 Election. Edwards believes in hope and the compassion of both friends and strangers, and Dunne puts power behind those words. Written before she confronted the recurrence of her cancer, this is a first-rate memoir by a woman who would be a first-rate first lady. M.T.B. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine