{"product_id":"dear-son-alina-thorne-9798294388393","title":"Dear Son: Letters of Grief, Memory, and Motherhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with love that has nowhere to go?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a mother loses her child, the world tells her to be strong, to hold on, to heal. But grief does not follow straight lines. It circles, rises, fades, and returns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd love - love does not end when breath does. It transforms. It roots itself in memory, in the quiet rituals of the everyday, in the ache that never fully leaves.\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply moving poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eDear Son: Letters of Grief, Memory, and Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e, Alina Thorne offers one hundred poems that speak to the unspeakable - losing a child. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough five intimate sections, she traces the arc of a mother's love from the early joy of babyhood, through the trauma of sudden loss, into the hollow ache of absence, and eventually to the quiet, sacred work of carrying grief with tenderness and truth.\u003cp\u003eThese poems do not offer neat answers or tidy resolutions. Instead, they invite the reader to sit in the rawness, to remember, and to feel deeply. Each poem is a letter - written to the son who is gone but not forgotten, present in absence, and carried still in every breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Son\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for anyone who has known love and loss. For mothers who mother children they cannot hold. For fathers, siblings, friends, and companions who walk beside the grieving. For those learning that memory can be a form of presence, and that letting go is not the opposite of holding on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is not a map out of grief. It is a companion for the road. A gentle voice saying: \u003ci\u003eYou are not alone. Your love is not lost. And even here - especially here - your story matters.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alina Thorne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798294388393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d","brand":"Alina Thorne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611997978879,"sku":"9798294388393","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4857cafd-82cc-4c15-b2f2-b25e482b8358.jpg?v=1764517494","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dear-son-alina-thorne-9798294388393","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}