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Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir / Delia Ephron.

ISBN: 9780316267656
ISBN: 0316267651
ISBN: 9780316412834
ISBN: 031641283X
Physical Description: vii, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2022

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Summary:

"Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister Nora and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one small change in her life--she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love. But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia. In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love."-- Provided by publisher.