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Faith, Friendship, and the Day I Nearly Lost Everything
Atria
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
304 pages ISBN: 1476729603 EAN: 9781476729602 Kindle: A WORLD Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A remarkable true story of hope, survival, and faith lost
and found . . . On May 11, 2012, a small plane
carrying five young adults en route to a Christian youth
rally plummeted into a Kansas field. Only two survived the
crash: twenty-seven-year-old ex-marine Austin Anderson, who
would die the next morning from extensive burns, and his
friend Hannah Luce, the twenty-two-year-old daughter of the
renowned youth evangelist Ron Luce, cofounder and CEO of
Teen Mania Ministries. In the moments after the crash,
Hannah was injured and frightened, but together, she and
Austin, who appeared miraculously out of the rubble, managed
to reach a deserted road, where a passing driver found them
and called for help. For the first time, Hannah
tells her story, not just of what happened in the plane that
day and of her long road to recovery, but of how the crash
changed everything she thought she knew about friendship,
family, and faith. On the surface, Hannah was the
dutiful daughter of Evangelical royalty, with a degree from
Oral Roberts University and a staff position in her father’s
ministry. Yet, in the years leading up to the crash, she had
begun to investigate and question her early religious
convictions. How much of what she’d been taught was really
true? Did she still believe any of it? But as Hannah
recounts the transformative aftermath of the crash—Austin’s
strength as he took care of her even as his own body failed,
the miracle of the stranger who rescued them, and memories
of her beloved friend Garrett, who died in the crash—she
sees reasons to hope in the most unlikely places.
On that day marked by fire and pain and tragedy, Hannah
was shaken to her core and soon realized she had to find a
way to deal with her scars—inside and out. From out of the
darkness, she discovered a new kind of faith, one that
allowed her to embrace a life of purpose and possibility
while honoring the memory of those she loved most.
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