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""In Antiphon: A Call and Response in a Year of Grief and Renewal, Jane Flynn and Christina Holbrook invite us into an intimate exchange shaped by sorrow, love, and the enduring threads of friendship. These luminous, echoing essays-born of personal loss and mortal reckoning-offer solace to anyone who has walked the canyons of grief and knows the rhythm of a broken heart. With clarity and grace, the authors reveal not only the healing power of presence, but the quiet, life-affirming beauty that persists even in the midst of suffering."" --Karen Wyatt MD, author of 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying""What Antiphon offers is a glimpse into grief as a communal act. It tells the story of what happens when we don't hide the truth of our suffering, when instead we sit side by side and allow the shared threads of our narratives to intertwine. And through this simple act of telling and listening, of call and response, a new story begins to emerge: one of friendship, hope, and transformational potential."" --Amanda Veale, award-winning editor and columnist, LUMINA, BLUESTEM, RUMINATE and the best-selling Finnish magazine, ANANDA. ""A testament to the power of sharing our vulnerabilities in the face of devastating loss. During the course of a year, two lifelong friends struggle to orient themselves to their own grief and to a world that will never be the same. Their exchange not only reveals how opening ourselves to a trusted other can begin to mend our tattered souls, but beautifully illustrates the possibility for renewal and transformation through the act of communal self-exploration."" --Marisol Montoya, LPC, CEAP Certified Grief Specialist and Senior Clinical Consultant, Employee Assistance Program

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A self-described ""serial New Yorker"", Jane Flynn was born in Manhattan and lived there through early childhood and again as a young attorney. She received her BA in Ancient Greek and English from Wellesley College, and her JD from Harvard Law School. She left family, friends and profession behind in 1990 to follow her future husband to Athens, Greece. After learning Greek, she spent the next thirty years raising two sons while navigating the services to support her younger son with autism. She cofounded an autism advocacy nonprofit and later served on the board of the Mediterranean Garden Society. Jane returned to New York in late 2020 following her younger son's death by suicide. She worked in Visitors Services for the Central Park Conservancy for several years, and continues to volunteer in Central Park. Antiphon is her first published work. Christina Holbrook graduated with a BA from Wellesley College and spent most of her career in New York City involved in the printing and publishing of art and photography books. She now lives in Breckenridge, Colorado, with her husband Alan Dulit. Christina has worked as a columnist for the Summit Daily newspaper in Colorado, and her short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals. All the Flowers of the Mountain, her first novel, was published by Sunroom Studios in 2022 and has received the 2023 Colorado Book Award for Romance, the 2023 IPPY Bronze Medal for Romance, and the 2025 IPPY Silver Medal for Fiction Audiobook.

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