In 2010 Annie McCarthy's mom, Mary Kay, requested hospice care. She passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her large family. Annie invites us to share this time with her so that we may experience her mother's grace as she accepted the mystery before her. Her personal account of the grief she endured following her mother's death allows us to witness the sacred power of loss. Annie chooses to embrace her grief in order to move through it. She states, "I decided to do a full cannonball into the well of grief. I would completely surrender." Through that process Annie comes to recognize the...

This book is an ethnographic exploration of slum children’s participation in NGO programs that centres children’s narratives as key to understanding the lived experience of development in India where 50% of the population is under the age of 25.