Breathing for a Living A Memoir

Name: Breathing for a Living A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780786888696

ISBN-10: 0786888695

ISBN-13: 9780786888696

Edition: N/A

Authors: Laura Rothenberg

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Twenty-one-year-old Laura Rothenberg had always tried to live a normal life -- even with lungs that betrayed her and a constant awareness that she might not live to see her next birthday. Like most people born with cystic fibrosis, the chronic disease that affects primarily the lungs, Laura struggled to come to grips with a life that had already been compromised in many ways. Sometimes healthy and able to be at school, other times hospitalized for weeks, Laura found solace in keeping a diary. In her writing, she could be open, honest, and irreverent, like the young person she was. Yet behind this voice is a penetrating maturity about her mortality. The memoir opens with Laura's decision to…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: Hyperion Press
Publication date: 6/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.19" wide x 8.00" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




The Decision



Waiting for the Transplant



In Between: The Beginning



Post-Transplant



What Others Wrote About My Transplant



Epilogue