Dear Zoe: Letters to My Grandchild on the Wonder of Life

Max De Pree

Retail Price: $11.00 LS Price: $0.00 Availability: Out-Of-Print Format: Paperback, 112pp. ISBN: 0802845924 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co Pub. Date: 1996

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In this intimate diary of prayerful letters to his premature granddaughter, best-selling author Max De Pree offers a moving portrait of spiritual strength and the power of family.

Former CEO and chairman emeritus of the board of Herman Miller, Inc., Max De Pree has been lauded by Forbes, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal as one of the most sensitive and successful executives in business. Through Dear Zoe, he shares a poignant and wonderfully redemptive personal story.

De Pree’s granddaughter was born perilously premature and weighed only one pound, seven ounces—De Pree could “hide [her] entire body under one hand.” Though her chances of surviving were a mere 5 to 10 percent, her mother bravely named her Zoe, the Greek word for life. De Pree’s journal-like letters candidly chronicle these terrifying early days, revealing the intimate process of a family pulling together while asking “Why?” and reflecting on the mysterious mingling of medicine and faith that sustained both Zoe and her family through each precarious day.

Originally published in 1996 by Harper San Francisco, Dear Zoe is now available in paperback for the first time.


Reviews

Occasionally a book comes along that is a gift to the spirit. This is such a book. . . . These are letters of wonder—wonder at how life, when it seems most secure, is unspeakably fragile, and how when it is most precarious, it is yet unspeakably good.

—Christianity Today

This book will make a wonderful gift for families struggling with a loved one's "imperfection" or uncertain future. Readers will be comforted.

—CBA Bookstore Journal

A poignant and moving story.

—Robert Schuller

Max DePree is chairman emeritus of Herman Miller, Inc., the primary innovator in the furniture business for sixty years and regularly included as one of Fortune’s 25 Most Admired Companies in the United States. The author of the bestselling Leadership Jazz, as well as Leading Without Power, Called to Serve, and Dear Zoe, De Pree has been mentoring emerging leaders in both the profit and non—profit sectors for more than twenty years, and was elected by Fortune magazine to the National Business Hall of Fame.

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