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Amber Smith, wife of country star- turned-minister Granger Smith, has opened up about the heartbreak of losing her 3-year-old son, River, and the faith that carried her through it, a story she tells with raw honesty in her forthcoming memoir, The Girl on the Bathroom Floor .

In June 2019, the Smiths’ three-year-old son, River, drowned in the family’s pool. The tragedy shattered their world and, for a time, nearly ended it.

Granger has since spoken publicly about the night he almost took his own life, overwhelmed by guilt and despair. Amber recounts that moment in the book, both from her perspective as a wife and mother trying to hold her family together and as a woman learning to trust that God’s goodness could somehow survive catastrophe.

“This book, lots of prayer,

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