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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Bright HourSubtitle: A Memoir of Living and DyingAuthor: Nina RiggsNarrator: Kirby Heyborne, Cassandra CampbellFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 33 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 06-06-17Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 211 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:An exquisite memoir about how to liveand loveevery day with death in the room, from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air.We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other.Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancerone small spot. Within a year, the mother of two sons, ages seven and nine, and married sixteen years to her best friend, received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal.How does one live each day, unattached to outcome? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty?Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, even as she wrestles with the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nina Riggss breathtaking memoir continues the urgent conversation that Paul Kalanithi began in his gorgeous When Breath Becomes Air. She asks, what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time?Brilliantly written, disarmingly funny, and deeply moving, The Bright Hour is about how to love all the days, even the bad ones, and its about the way literature, especially Emerson, and Ninas other muse, Montaigne, can be a bomb and a form of prayer. Its a book about looking death squarely in the face and saying this is what will be.Especially poignant in these uncertain times, The Bright Hour urges us to live well and not lose sight of what makes us human: love, art, music, words. Stunningheartrendingthis years When Breath Becomes Air. Nora Krug, The Washington PostMost Anticipated Summer Reading Selection by * The Washington Post * Glamour * The Seattle Times * InStyle * Bookpage * Bookriot * Real Simple * The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionCritic Reviews:Beautiful and haunting. Matt McCarthy, MD, (USA TODAY)Deeply affectingsimultaneously heartbreaking and funny. (People, Book of the Week)Vivid, immediate. Laura Collins-Hughes, (The Boston Globe)Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
