GIANT LOVE SONG is witness to the poetic journey of fourteen-year-old Maureen Muldoon, a committed daydreamer trying to navigate the final hours of her mother’s life without getting crushed. She weaves a tapestry of stories and songs in hopes of avoiding the inevitable. Along the way, we meet colorful characters from this Jersey neighborhood who leave their mark on your heart. As daybreak comes, Maureen is granted a gift from her father, the Giant. Carried to her from several decades before her birth, this could be the very thing she was chasing all along. You've written one of my favorite books ever. Your memoir just soars! I'm laughing, weeping, smiling, remembering. It's enchanting. Elizabeth Keats When I was a kid, I sat at my mother's death-bed and thought that my life would end with her death. Living without her would be like living without air. In the middle of this nightmare, my father reached out and pulled me back into life. He did it with a story.My youth was spent marinating in my father's stories. I understood the power and preciousness that could be woven into a good yard. The magical way that a story could make me lean in like I was taking in a beautiful woman. The healing way that a story could have me shaking my head in appreciation. The magnetic way a story was able to make me feel connected to everyone. This is why I love stories, they are more than magical, they are medicinal. So it took me a while to deliver this story. I spent many years writing and re-writing it over and over, hoping to get it just right. It was very important to me. You see, it was the story that saved my life.  Giant Love Song is just that -- an eloquent, beautifully written anthem to the sovereignty of love in our darkest hours. Maureen Muldoon's words dance across the pages like notes on a scale, guiding the reader through the pain and the beauty of loss in ways that'll leave you grateful for the time spent turning pages. Jim Praytor, Hollywood TV producer Life and death are complex. How does a child process losing her mother? This beautiful child, with a clear path to her imagination, carries us with her to her secret place, where she unwraps love and loss. Maureen Muldoon writes in beautiful dreamlike images. I found myself floating from one chapter to the next in that surreal state that always seems to surround death. Maureen and her Mother, though physically apart, have remained connected, and it seems to me that this book is a result of their love and shared wisdom. Tim Bagley, actor Will & GraceLove is all around us, but we don't always see it. In a Giant Love Song, Maureen Muldoon asks us to take a closer look before we give up on love. And Ms. Muldoon's memoir doesn't disappoint; it poignantly shows us where to find love even when we're engulfed by loss, adversity, and chaos. The book is a carefully-rendered journey from darkness to light, a journey almost every one of us must take at one time or another. Let Ms. Muldoon help guide you on that journey. - Irving Belateche Maureen Muldoon is a writer, author, motivational speaker, and life coach. She spent twenty years working in TV and film as an actress and writer. She lives in La Grange, Illinois and Madeline Island, WI with her husband and their four kids. She is the author of Giant Love Song, the children's book The Life of A Sandcastle and Spiritual Vixen's Guide to An Unapologetic Life. Her poetry, personal essay, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in Story Lab, Lit Up, Booby Trap, Story, Actors Access, Voice Box, Risk! and Voyage Chicago.