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I Never Promised You A Goodie Bag
Jennifer Gilbert
A Memoir of a Life Through Events--the Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't
Harper
May 2012
On Sale: May 15, 2012
224 pages
ISBN: 0062075942
EAN: 9780062075949
Kindle: B006SJLJMA
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
When Jennifer Gilbert was just a year out of college, a
twenty-two-year-old fresh-faced young woman looking forward
to a bright future, someone tried to cut her life short in
the most violent way. But she survived, and not wanting this
traumatic event to define her life, she buried it deep
within and never spoke of it again. She bravely launched a fabulous career in New York as an
event planner, designing lavish parties and fairy-tale
weddings. Determined to help others celebrate and enjoy
life's greatest moments, she was convinced she'd never again
feel joy herself. Yet it was these weddings, anniversaries,
and holiday parties, showered with all her love and
attention through those silent, scary years, that slowly
brought her back to life. Always the calm in the event-planning storm—she could fix a
ripped wedding dress, solve the problem of an undelivered
wedding cake in the nick of time, and move a party with two
days' notice when disaster struck—there was no crisis that
she couldn't turn into a professional triumph. Somewhere
along the way, she felt a stirring in her heart and began
yearning for more than just standing on the sidelines living
vicariously through other people's lives. She fell in love,
had her heart broken a few times, and then one day she found
true love in a place so surprising that it literally knocked
her out of her chair. As Gilbert learned over and over again, no one's entitled to
an easy road, and some people's roads are bumpier than
others. But survive each twist and turn she does—sometimes
with tears, sometimes with laughter, and often with both. Warm, wise, alternately painful and funny, I Never Promised
You a Goodie Bag is an inspiring memoir of survival,
renewal, and transformation. It's a tale about learning to
let go and be happy after years of faking it, proving that
while we can't always control what happens to us, we can
control who we become. And instead of anticipating our
present in a goodie bag at the end of an event, we realize
our presence at every event is the real gift.
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