READER FEEDBACK

"Just when you think you know nearly everything there is to know about what it feels like to be a human being, along comes a story that brings you to your knees and cracks your heart open just a bit more.   Preemie is a book like that.  Kasey Mathews tells deep, painful truths about what happens when a "perfect" life is jolted by reality.  So much more than an account of a birth plan gone awry, this lovely memoir is about letting go of assumptions, moving into the place that scares us most, and discovering that what we get in return for our surrender is nothing less than grace."

Katrina Kenison, author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day and Mitten Strings for God 

"Thank you, Kasey, for this frank, funny, touching and triumphant story. Preemie will resonate with anyone who has loved a runt of any species, and deeply move everyone who has ever loved a baby of any kind."         

               Sy Montgomery                                                  

                   author of The Good Good Pig and Birdology 

"Kasey, when I think of your journey... how much you opened, like a flower, and began to know yourself in a way that you never could have, and I think about your daughter's journey, how brave she was, even though she did not have the consciousness to know the word 'brave' she had decided, somewhere in that tiny body, to survive. And survive she did.  She not only survived but thrived.  How lucky I am to know this story."  

          Suzanne Kingsbury, author of The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me                                                                   and The Gospel According to Grace 

"I just finished Kasey's book.  I have tears running down my cheeks.  The emotions it has made surface are beyond words.  It helped me release many things I was not aware I have been carrying.  With many spiritual teachers in my life, I am adding her to the list."

Chick Wetherbee, Owner, Earthward Natural Foods and Co-op

"I had an all day retreat by the ocean, it was raining buckets and so,had the entire day to my self, and the company of Preemie by Kasey Mathews.  What a journey I had as I read each page.  I found my self laughing, crying, totally amazed and absorbed.  I've thought so much about you and Lee, Tucker and Andie...What a hellish, beautiful, time for all of you.  So many hopes and fears and healing.  

Tamera Colgate, Reiki Master, Keene, NH

 

"It is the best book.  It's amazing how you wove the story so the reader (even if they don't know you) could feel your struggles and maternal instinct, Lee's unconditional love, Tuck's sweetness and of course Andies' will to live.  You really did open yourself up, I really can't thank you enough for sharing the whole experience."  

Charlotte Gilet, Saratoga, NY

"I am done, I am done reading your book!  I am emotionally wiped out. I read it all day and did nothing else. I cried, laughed, reminisced, felt your emotions, my emotions, my mother's emotions.  EVERYTHING.  I even took time out to go to a parent class meeting where I couldn't concentrate and barely said a word to anyone.  I was still back in your book and just could not bother with bake sales, proms and student elections.  It was the best read ever. And I mean ever."  

Lucy McBribe, Concord, MA

 

"Oh, I loved it. Read it in a day, just couldn't put it down. It was just so gripping.... Even though I knew her daughter made it, I still just wanted to tear through it. If thats her first book she has a gift as a writer. Thank you for letting me read it."  

Megan Luce, Tacoma, WA

 

"At first I was hesitant to read your book given the experience with our family and the NICU, but I knew I had to get over that and start the book.  I didn’t feel that way when I read your book and was totally into your story and the way you presented it.  The closeness between you and Lee, your honesty and struggle over the weeks and months and your final conclusion that now it is time to start a celebratory chapter in all of your lives was what struck me so deeply."    

Marsha Dixon, Hancock, NH

"Kasey has such a gift.  It's like I have been right there with her, the story is so vividly and authentically brought to view.  I am so touched by her honesty, by her sharing of her humanness." 

Enid Ames, Singer/songwriter, Lyndeboro, NH