Surviving the Worst

"How is it possible to recover and love the world again when you have lived
through the worst? "On the night of September 5, 1990, my two children, Lucie
and Sylvain, were murdered by their own father. Faced with such a tragedy, I
could have killed myself, but I chose life. Like many mothers, I believed that
I could never live without my children. And yet... today, I am no longer
ashamed to be alive. Surviving hell is possible. "There is not a word in the
dictionary that is good enough to define the nothingness in which I and my
family found ourselves." "To fill this gap, I decided to write my story. How
can you survive the death of your children? I hope that my testimony will help
you, dear reader, to understand the pain of the victims and perhaps one day to
overcome it." In this extraordinary story, of rare humanity, Patricia Oddo
finds the strength to live for her children, to fall in love, to be a mother
again, to speak without taboo about this tragedy that struck her children, and
to mourn this tragedy thirty years later.