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Title: A Journal for Jordan

Subtitle: A Story of Love and Honor

Author: Dana Canedy

Narrator: Dana Canedy

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-08

Publisher: Random House Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A Journal for Jordan is a mother's letter to her son - fierce in its honesty - about the father he lost before he could even speak. It is also a father's advice and prayers for the son he will never know.

Critic Reviews:

"This tragic story of love and war reminds all Americans that we are fortunate to have people like Sgt. Charles King, willing to die for our country. Dana Canedy bears witness to the enduring power of love, to Sgt. King's heroism and his unfailing devotion to his family and his men." (Caroline Kennedy)

"This book is a living, breathing legacy. It's full of wonderful treasures offered by a unique and spirited father, whose loving words of wisdom to his infant son are a rite of passage that will transform us all. It is written with serene grace: part memoir, part love story, all heart." (James McBride, author of The Color of Water)

"Dana Canedy's moving memoir has captured my heart and won't let it go. Courageous in its honesty and at times unsettling, it draws us deep into the soul of a woman in love, the pain of her loss and the unpardonable theft of hopes and dreams, lives and futures stolen by war. With an exquisite voice, Canedy recounts moments of intense emotion that haunt us long after savoring the last lines. I didn't want it to end." (Susan L. Taylor, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Essence, and founder of the National Cares Mentoring Movement)

Members Reviews:

Great read!!!

This novel was suggested to be by someone, and I reluctantly decided to read it. After easily getting through the first few pages, I was so glad that I had started reading. What an amazing love story! There was such a realness to this book that I was sad to see it end.

Beautiful story!!!

I went through an entire box of Kleenex reading this book. Thank you for sharing this beautiful love story with us Dana. Your Charles was an amazing man and It's not fair that he left this world far too soon. Jordan is beautiful and I will always think of you both and wish for you to have happiness and peace. I lost my father at the age of 7, he was in the Navy and killed on active duty in the Indian Ocean. My baby brother was 3 months old and my father only had 13 days with him after his birth. Your story touched my heart deeply, knowing the pain of much of it personally. My heartfelt condolences to you and your sweet son. Again, thank you for this book.

A Journal For Jordan Inspirational And Heartwarming

A Journal for Jordan

A Story of Love and Honor

Random House

Written by Dana Canedy

Available in Hardcover and Paperback

In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. Charles King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated road near Baghdad. His son, Jordan, was seven months old.

A Journal for Jordan is a mother's LETTER to her son-fierce in its honesty-about the father he lost before he could even speak. It is also a father's advice and prayers for the son he will never know.

He finished the journal two months before his death while home on a two-week leave, so intoxicated with love for his infant son that he barely slept.

Finally, this is the story of Dana and Charles together-two seemingly mismatched souls who loved each other deeply.