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The Chase family, Shelley and Del, and sons, Micah and Nick, lived in the home they had built in the foothills of Central California amidst manzanita, cedars, and pine. Happy and healthy, the family worked, romped, and played in their hilltop paradise where homegrown food and family rituals were the norm. All of that changed in the summer of 1991 when twelve-year-old Micah was diagnosed with acute myelocytic leukemia. What followed was a nightmarish battle waged not only in Micah's young body but also on fronts unimaginable and unconscionable. Narrated by his mother, Eagle Feathers and Angel Wings chronicles Micah's courage and the demolition of foundations her family believed were enduring: home, integrity, and the fulfillment of obligations. Muniz reveals the vivid truth about the essential rights of the catastrophically ill, struggles with health care coverage, and medical care. This inspiring remembrance is the documentation of a family's love, their efforts to find answers for Micah, and a resolution to his pain even after his death. Eagle Feathers and Angel Wings is much more than a story of loss. It is a story about living.

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What stays with me most about this book is the portrait of Micah--an amazing boy who, in his short life, gave so much to family and community. I'm also struck by the loving way Shelley raised her family, her depictions of what it feels like to really enjoy being a mother. Some of the writing in this book is truly lovely--and devastating. She powerfully portrays torment over the illness and loss of a son--and yet there is so much LOVE in the book. Eagle Feathers and Angel Wings: Micah's Story, will leave no doubt in your mind that medical treatment should be non-profit. Period. I hope this book is made into a movie. I think it could really have an impact on the changes that need to happen. --Kate Evans, author, Call it Wonder

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Shelley Muniz has short stories in these journals: Wild Edges by Manzanita Press; Wisdom Has a Voice: Every daughter's memories of mother by First Edition Paperback. Her books include Eagle Feathers and Angel Wings: Micah's Story; Tunneling; One Great Tribe, illustrated by Bear Dyken; When the Creator Moves Me: a story about music, resistance, and creative activism, with Mark Dyken and Bear Dyken; Just for Leon John, with Mark Dyken, illustrated by Bear Dyken, all published by Resiliency Press. Shelley was a teacher's aide, an elementary school librarian, and a library specialist for thirty years. She is a Board member, and the secretary for Resiliency Village, a nonprofit tiny house village and trauma healing center in Sonora, California.

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