Wendy Karasin Shares MOON TO PLAY WITH

MERRICK, N.Y.

"With 79 million baby boomers and more than 40 million seniors, it is now imperative for everyone to have conscious end-of-life conversations with their aging parents and family," says author Wendy Karasin.

The new book, " The Moon to Play With: A Daughter's Journey through Love, Loss, and the Power of Presence" (published by Balboa Press), is a memoir of Karasin's own loss of both parents within a three month period. This experience pushed her to understand the connection between life and death, which she says exposed to her a powerful re-evaluation tool regarding the interplay of death and loss with life. Millions of people born in the baby boomer years are facing this same challenge.

Karasin's story looks deeply into the relationships, love, loss and renewal in her life as she resists, then embraces, her parents' aging and their eventual deaths. Through an examination of her imperfect but close relationships, Karasin universalizes her own experience to share insights on aging, grief and bereavement that ultimately open windows to survival and hope.

"The death of a loved one brings their mortality into awareness and with it, our own," Karasin writes. "Every moment, precious and shrinking, is brought into keen focus when there aren't many left. Never did I feel compassion as strongly as when I was with my dying parents. I learned that it takes great courage to extend compassion because a heart must remain open in order for compassion to flow, even when that heart is breaking."

Praise for "The Moon to Play With":

"Wendy Karasin's story is that of a universal experience, told with grace and soul."

-Mimi Krumholz, blogger at Waiting for the Karma Truck

"The Moon to Play With"
By Wendy Karasin
Hardcover | 5.5 x 8.5 in | 236 pages | ISBN 9781452523897
Softcover | 5.5 x 8.5 in | 236 pages | ISBN 9781452523873
E-Book | 236 pages | ISBN 9781452523880
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author
Wendy Karasin holds a graduate degree from New York University. In addition to having raised four children, she has worked in educational publishing, owned and operated a diet center, and provided professional services as a wellness coach. She presently resides in Merrick, New York, and New Haven, Connecticut. More information is available at MoonToPlayWith.com and wendykarasin.com.

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