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A review by jennyyates
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir by Delia Ephron
3.0
This memoir is a fast read, mainly because the reader becomes immersed in her story. It’s told simply, directly, and with a certain urgency - as though you’re having an intense conversation with a friend, but you both have to be somewhere else soon. It can be choppy at times, with lots of short sentences, but it’s a story worth telling.
She writes about the sorrow she felt after her husband Jerry dies, and then the amazing feeling of falling in love again. With her new husband, Peter, she recaptures all the romance she experienced in her youth, even though they’re both in their seventies. And then she gets leukemia, the same disease that felled her sister, Nora Ephron.
The following chapters are all about her experience with the disease, coming close to death several times, dealing with her own fears and denial, and eventually being miraculously cured by a stem cell transplant. This is not a spoiler, since you know she had to live, in order to write this book!
She writes about the sorrow she felt after her husband Jerry dies, and then the amazing feeling of falling in love again. With her new husband, Peter, she recaptures all the romance she experienced in her youth, even though they’re both in their seventies. And then she gets leukemia, the same disease that felled her sister, Nora Ephron.
The following chapters are all about her experience with the disease, coming close to death several times, dealing with her own fears and denial, and eventually being miraculously cured by a stem cell transplant. This is not a spoiler, since you know she had to live, in order to write this book!