Love in Every Letter

Every life is comprised of failures, successes, love, loss, pain, and suffering. The hardships and challenges, however, are opportunities for evolution.In her book, Love in Every Letter, author Charmaine Gay seeks to provide insights for growth based on her own life, beginning with her unique upbringing in the Philippines as a child performer, to her adoption and migration to rural Canada during adolescence. Determined to thrive, she navigates around culture shock, a multiracial adoptive family, unpredictable loves, and a battery of illnesses. Throughout her career in education, she undergoes surgeries and loses seven major and minor organs. How am I still alive? becomes her one burning question.It would take the diagnosis of a rare cancer to show Charmaine Gay the path of self-reflection and allow her to accept her life as it is. She writes letters to a wide cross-section of people to ignite sparks that burst open the doors to new perspectives. The process has taught her to be aware and appreciative of what she has, even for the most difficult things, including cancer.Written with openness and honesty but with a splash of humour, Love in Every Letter is a compendium of lessons from which we can all learn to be more forgiving, grateful, compassionate, and self-reflective. Read more