For the most part, there was nothing particularly unusual about
Jean Potter 's life. Going right to work after graduating from high
school, she spent most of her career as an executive assistant in
several large New York-based companies. In fact, she was working
for the managing director of Bank of America in its offices on the
eighty-first floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on
September 11, 2001.
By the Grace of God is Jean 's story from her upbringing in
Brooklyn, New York, to her jobs as assistant to several high-level
executives, to her courtship and marriage to a New York City
fireman, to setting up a home in Battery Park City, to that
horrific day when she and her co-workers had to make their way down
eighty-one flights of stairs in a desperate effort to escape the
collapse of the North Tower. It 's the story, too, of her husband,
Dan, seeing flames erupting from the World Trade Center, and racing
from Staten Island to Manhattan determined to help her, but,
recognizing his duty as a fireman, stopping to help others even
while he anguished over his wife 's fate.
It 's also the story of the extraordinary effect living through
that day had on both of their lives having to cope with the effects
of post traumatic stress disorder; moving because they could no
longer live in a home haunted by three thousand ghosts; giving up
their jobs, Jean because she could no longer bear working in New
York City and Dan because he d been hurt in the collapse of the
South Tower; and having to leave the city they had grown up in and
loved. Perhaps most important, By the Grace of God is the story of
how their faith enabled them to come to terms with their experience
and to find a new life of love, hope, and healing.
General
| Imprint: |
Authorhouse
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2011 |
| First published: |
May 2011 |
| Authors: |
Jean Potter
• Rob Kaplan
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 9mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - With printed dust jacket / With dust jacket
|
| Pages: |
108 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4567-6606-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Endurance & survival
|
| LSN: |
1-4567-6606-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781456766061 |
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