The Art Teaching of John Ruskin (1891)

A dramatic conversion completely captured in e-mails, tweets, and texts between a young girl, alone and dying of cancer, and the young Nashville woman who became her best friend

With three weeks to live, completely alone, abandoned, and hooked up to life support, twenty-three-year-old Gabby Seviet reaches out in the only way left to her: she goes online. And through one lonely question slung into cyberspace, she finds a connection, a stranger who would become her closest friend-Megan, the young wife of a Christian rock band member. Three weeks of e-mails, tweets, texts, and phone calls capture the whole of Gabby’s dazzling journey, an astoundingly passionate Christian walk in miniature.

From the doctors and nurses who attended her, to the father who had systematically tortured and abused her for years, Gabby’s last three weeks of life shook everyone she came into contact with. And the ripples continue to spread. Her story and writings, as compiled by Megan, are a legacy of bone-jarring beauty, depth, and hope for renewal; a difficult life with a beautiful end.