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    The Brothers of Bragg Jam: A Mother's Memoir
    The Brothers of Bragg Jam: A Mother's Memoir
    The Brothers of Bragg Jam: A Mother's Memoir
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    The Brothers of Bragg Jam: A Mother's Memoir

    Written by Julie Bragg

    Narrated by Liz Jarvis Fabian

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    Julie and Jim Bragg were grief-stricken when the sheriff and chaplain left their Macon, Georgia, home. Sons Brax and Taylor, homebound on a July road trip, had been killed on a Texas highway. They asked God to send helpers if they were meant to survive this tragedy. Within the hour, as family gathered, baffling events occurred. A young stranger, clothed in white, visible only to Julie, walked slow circles in the yard. A new vase of lilies was on the piano, though no one had placed it there. Three weeks later, friends presented a memorial concert, calling it Bragg Jam, and the brothers' legacy was born. Soon afterward, their sister Anne phoned her mother to say she was with a client who claimed to hear her brothers' voices repeating, "Talk to my mama!" Caution melted with Julie's first compelling exchange with this woman, who later visited the Bragg home to channel spirits--not only of sons, but of ancestors who spoke of gifts and solutions to earlier mysteries. Olivia's readings required decoding, but each hopeful message proved that spirits carry loving, surprising memories into the afterlife with them--this was profoundly comforting. The Braggs realized that by getting on with their sadly changed lives, the family would honor their sons and eventually survive grief. Julie began recording memories and resumed her home-based swim school. The family created a labyrinth sanctuary. As the years passed, three grandbabies were welcomed into the family--two as namesakes for Taylor and Brax. Bragg Jam became a huge regional festival.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLantern Audio
    Release dateApr 15, 2020
    ISBN9781949278811
    The Brothers of Bragg Jam: A Mother's Memoir

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    • 5/5
      What an awe-inspiring book! Exquisite writing that ran the gamut of human emotions over the death of loved ones.In “The Brothers of Bragg Jam”, Julie Bragg writes of her family’s last day of innocence, to be shattered, when she receives the news that no parent wants to encounter. Her sons – Brax, 28 and Tate, 17 – are both killed in an auto accident. A joyous cross-country trip for the brothers that ends in tragedy. Julie bears her soul to the reader as she experiences gut-wrenching grief, numbness, disbelief, and eventfully hope and acceptance.A woman of deep faith, Julie’s belief in an afterlife carries her through this time of grief. I love her statement that “even Jesus knew his friends would need something tangible”. Thus, the appearance of things with a strong connection to her sons at just the right time strengthens her belief that her sons are still with her. At times the book reads like a mystery as Julie tries to unravel the meaning of some of the mysterious phenomena. Julie’s masterful writing at times allowed me to forget this was a story of death and, instead, made it a story of life. I loved the humorous stories Julie shares of her sons. I found myself laughing over the time Brax helped his friend Mick in a charade to help Mick obtain the financing to update the shabby, vacate apartments in his house. The keyword being “vacant”. The crazy imaginations of these lads resulted in them borrowing furniture for the apartments and making them appear to be lived in – including dirty dishes in the sinks, rumpled beddings, mails in the apartment mailboxes. Ingenious! It was truly gratifying reading about the strength of community that held the Bragg family up when their grief was too hard to bear alone. The strength of community that allowed Julie to be so open and vulnerable in sharing with them her messages from her sons. A compassionate community that all loved and hurt so badly at the loss of Brax and Tate. A loving community that ensured their legacy would carry on.