After Annie Brown dies suddenly, her family and her best friend struggle to maintain their lives and eventually discover that they are able to grow, change and become stronger due to their memories and the lasting power of love.

Seven years after her son Jim, a freelance journalist, was captured and killed by ISIS - a brutal act that produced one of the 21st century's most haunting images - Diane Foley is offered the opportunity to meet her son's murderer over three days in a Virginia courthouse. So begins American Mother-- which reads alternately like a thriller, a biography, a mystery, a memoir, and a literary examination of grace. In this astonishing book, we are all invited...