Book Review: Kindle Single I Was a Stranger to Beauty, by Caroline McGraw

  Friends, On Monday my dear friend Caroline McGraw of A Wish Come Clear published a Kindle Single, I Was a Stranger to Beauty. I encourage–suggest–politely demand–that you click over and buy this book for $1.99 immediately–not because she’s my best friend, but because her story will break your heart in the best possible way, break it open in order to let light in. If you don’t own a Kindle, you can download a Kindle Cloud reader for free.     On to business.  Caroline tells the story of her road, which is rocky at the best of times, toward loving and accepting her younger brother Willie, who is on the autism spectrum and who struggles with violent outbursts.  She describes her childhood, first loving her sweet brother, then seeing him overtaken by a rage that seems to subsume his very self, seemingly without cause or provocation.  She vividly describes her fear and then, slowly, her journey ...