Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life, a Memoir

Journalist Carol Smith recounts how she faced down the crippling loss of her seven-year-old son, Christopher, through a series of profiles of people coping with their own intense challenges. Here are stories of survival and transformation, of people facing devastating situations that changed them in unexpected ways, mixed with her own account of how they helped her heal, from grief to hope.--From book jacket flap.

Carol Smith is an award-winning journalist and editor for NPR affiliate KUOW in Seattle. Previously she worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Los Angeles Times. Her newspaper work has won dozens of national and regional awards and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize seven times, and her writing has appeared in more than a dozen literary journals. Smith was recently named Editor of the Year by Public Media Journalists Association.