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Some of life’s most intimate and enlightening moments occur when we are taking care of an ailing parent or when we are living in the grief and new insights after they have made their transition. Fayegail Mandell Bisaccia’s profound book has a wealth of wisdom about this very important journey and I recommend you let yourself dance with it. Your spiritual life and your family life will be so much deeper as a result.
Leonard Felder, PhD,
author of The Ten Challenges

An intimate, inspiring, useful and moving account of one woman’s journey, through grieving, to the acceptance of her mothers death. But it is more than that. It provides a window into the way a deep belief in an inner power and strength can carry us through any painful time. Ms. Bisaccia uses the beauty and wisdom of her Jewish faith as one pane of that window. It is an interesting, deeply introspective entrée into a modern perspective of Judaism. However, one does not need to be Jewish to recognize and identify with the universal wisdom expressed in her journey.
Mary Margaret Moore,
author of I Come as a Brother

Fayegail Bisaccia has given us a loving gift in her brave, intimate and transparent journal of her journey into love and learning, grieving and healing as she reckons with and struggles with her parents’ mortality. The collective wisdom of this family, their fears, humor, and candor, provides a richness that can inform and inspire anyone who will some day be present for and helping a loved one who is dying . . . that is, all of us.
Rabbi Marc Sirinsky

Dancing in My Mother’s Slippers is a valuable tool for hospice and grief work . . . a great read for book groups . . . a book to bring people together. Reading this book with my ninety-year-old mother made it a lot easier for us to face this passage together. It opened the door to a whole series of rich and intimate talks between us. I’m grateful to have found this book for my own journey and for my work with clients.
Georgia Moriarty King, mental health therapist

It is beautiful, profound, honest, well-written and riveting. Grief weaves its way into her daily life in unexpected ways. Resolution, or at least a deeper level of peace for her, comes only after time passes. We see her humanity (she is like us) and then we witness her extraordinarily brave spiritual quest. It gives us courage to look deeper at our own experiences, to hang in there on our own spiritual journey. That is one reason, I think, why she chose to write this book. It succeeds beautifully.
Anne Batzer

Dancing in My Mother’s Slippers is a wonderful day-to-day unfolding of personal grief and family intimacy which leads to a transcendent view—this is where the value lies.
Olive Streit, counselor

What made the book worthy is that it is about the living, not the grieving. It isnt regretful. It is about a life that is full of love and honor for parents. Its a model for relationship.
Judith Visser, Jewish educator

It talks to the heart, not to the head. Its a word-of-mouth kind of book. I would definitely recommend it to my bereaved clients.
Sister Dorothy Pulkka, OSB, grief counselor

I found out I am grieving in a much deeper and more profound way than I had understood or acknowledged before I read Slippers. During this year I never thought to seek out other literature on grieving because I thought I had moved on. I went back to everything in my life right away. I thought I didnt need to grieve, at least not much.
Kait Fairchild

People who have been through it will find comfort in her honest and compassionate treatment of medical issues.
Ellen Marks

Dancing in My Mothers Slippers is sensitively and artistically written. Her voice is authentic, self-revealing and forthright. The structure is like a symphony—loving relationships at the crescendo, great beauty, a sense of peace and maturity.
Ann Macrory

 
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