A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor »

DANA CANEDY is a senior editor at the New York Times, where she has been a journalist for twelve years. In 2001, she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for "How Race Is Lived in America," a series on race relations in the United States. Raised near Fort Knox, she lives in New York City with her son, Jordan.

This tender and moving audiobook by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is both a celebration of love and a devastating reminder of the human cost of the war in Iraq.
In 2005, First Sgt. Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a 200-page journal for his son in the event that he did not return from the desert in Iraq. He was killed on October 14, 2006, only one month away from completing his tour of duty. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN is both a father s letter to his son a loving mixture of advice and autobiography and a mother s attempt to put those words into the context of her life and the love they shared.

This tender and moving audiobook by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is both a celebration of love and a devastating reminder of the human cost of the war in Iraq.


From the Compact Disc edition.

Publishers Weekly

Inspired by a journal her fiancé wrote to their infant son while stationed as a sergeant in Iraq, New York Times editor Canedy tenderly recreates the couple's love story and decision to have a baby before he died. Canedy, an army brat herself, vowed to stay away from military men, but at 33, she was attracted to the shy, newly divorced artist and first sergeant Charles Monroe King, whom she met in the home of her parents in Radcliff, Ky., even if not quite like the intellectual men she typically dated back in New York. Over several years, their relationship developed despite their busy, separate lives, and when Charles was ordered to duty in Iraq in 2005, they discussed marriage and decided to conceive a child. Charles could not get back for baby Jordan's delivery, and the sergeant spent only two weeks with his baby son before returning to duty-he was killed in 2006. Canedy's account of Charles's last visit with his wife and child is heartbreaking. Unflinching and thorough, Canedy offers a sense of shared grief with other families whose loved ones have died in the war. (Dec.)