Sing Me to Heaven

by Peterson, Margaret Kim

• ISBN13: 9781587430473
• ISBN10: 1587430479
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Brazos Pr

Summary

Falling in love with Hyung Goo was the best and the worst thing that ever happened to Margaret Kim Peterson. Never before had she met someone who made her feel so whole, so happy, so hopeful. But she knew on her wedding day that her girlish dreams of "happily ever after" would never come true. Hyung Goo was HIV-positive. With poignant honesty she relives how she fell in love, then learned Hyung Goo was HIV-positive; how the couple broke off their relationship but then decided to continue it and finally to be married -- even as they were aware that he was dying. With power and eloquence, Peterson recounts the story of their marriage that was simultaneously envied and pitied. No one envied the inevitable briefness of their marriage, but many did envy the depth, passion, and endurance of the couple's love. Sing Me to Heaven is a gripping love story, a moving account of marriage "for better or for worse," a striking depiction of spiritual growth, and a testimony to bonds stronger than death. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Margaret Kim Peterson is theologian in residence at First Presbyterian Church in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She teaches theology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Land and Sea: The Old Country	7	(56)
The Most Beautiful of Absolute Disasters	9	(8)
January 9, 1990: The Announcement	17	(3)
A Marginal Man	20	(9)
March 17, 1990: Starting AZT	29	(8)
School Daze	37	(8)
Learning to Dance	45	(7)
The Clinic	52	(11)
Land and Sea: Ascending	63	(8)
October 8, 1992: KS Diagnosis	64	(7)
Land and Sea: Bodies in the Water	71	(36)
Dreaming with Salvador Dali	73	(7)
September 30, 1993: Leaving Work	80	(7)
Sing Me to Heaven	87	(9)
January 6, 1994: CMV Diagnosis	96	(5)
March 14, 1994: PCP Diagnosis	101	(6)
Land and Sea: Out of Contact	107	(47)
Some People	108	(7)
The Rhetoric of AIDS	115	(11)
A Green and Dying Tree	126	(10)
April 1, 1995: Foscarnet	136	(9)
The Gardens	145	(9)
Land and Sea: Diving	154	(13)
September 4, 1995: Hospitalization	156	(11)
Land and Sea: Above the Clouds	167	(9)
September 17, 1995: Death	169	(7)
Land and Sea: In Midair	176	(10)
September 20, 1995: Funeral	177	(9)
Land and Sea: At the Wheel	186	(8)
October 7, 1995: Burial	188	(6)
Land and Sea: Wasteland	194	(9)
Reconaissance	195	(8)
Land and Sea: Flood Stage	203	(15)
Almost Noble	205	(8)
May 13, 1996: Final Exam	213	(5)
Land and Sea: Descending	218	(2)
Land and Sea: Living on the Ocean	220	(4)
Acknowledgments	224