Gabrielle Giffords

This was a great story. The writing was OK but the story made the book. The determination of Gabrielle Giffords to give her best to her district, her strong-willed efforts at recovery and Mark Kelly's compassion and love for his wife are heart warming and wonderful. The book is a sincere effort to help the reader understand what it was like to be the congresswoman doing her best to interact with the people of her district and have everything go wrong, which resulted not only in her own severe injuries but also the deaths and injuries of her staff and many other people anxious to meet her that day. How Mark Kelly deals with that and his compassion, his love for his wife — even making sure she approved every chapter and wrote a small chapter herself — is heartwarming. Their families and the Giffords' congressional staff are also very compassionate and dedicated to her and to their responsibilities to her constituents. I wanted to know more about her recovery and what she is doing now but I guess that is another book.… (more)