“An Unimaginable Loss”: A Review of The World is Not Going to Stop for my Broken Heart, by Amy Jo Giovannone
(Coronado, CA: www.ibokag.com, 2019). IS BN 978-1-708711-31-3 By Joey Madia It has been rightly said that losing a child is the most unnatural and devastating loss a parent can bear. And, with a yearly rise in deaths from opiate addiction and suicide, more and more parents are having to shoulder this worst of all grief. Nearly six years ago, Amy Jo Giovannone lost her daughter, Sierra, in unimaginable circumstances involving a beautiful, talented young lady whom everyone loved being prescribed opiates after surgery and finding herself addicted, leading to heroine use, involvement with dangerous and abusive people, a successful stint in rehab, followed by her disappearance and murder at the age of 23. No one was ever charged. Although there are strong hypotheses, this book, and Amy’s journey, do not center around the pursuit of justice (and, sad to say, there was none). Instead, Amy has chosen to share her process and philosophy for surviving the death of her daught...