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My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Viking
March 2023
On Sale: February 21, 2023
Featuring: Bozoma
288 pages
ISBN: 0593300173
EAN: 9780593300176
Kindle: B09ZRLTYZ6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography | Non-Fiction Memoir | Multicultural African-American
When Bozoma Saint John's husband, Peter, died of cancer, she made one big decision: to live life urgently. Bozoma was no stranger to adversity, having lost her college boyfriend to suicide, navigated an interracial marriage, grieved a child born prematurely--a process that led to her and Peter's separation--and navigated coparenting the daughter who she and Peter shared. When Peter knew his cancer was terminal, he gave Bozoma a short list of things to do: cancel the divorce, and fix the wrongs immediately.
In The Urgent Life, Bozoma takes readers through the dizzying, numbing days of multiple griefs, and the courage which these sparked in her to live life in accordance with her deepest values time and time again. We witness Bozoma's journey forward through the highs and the lows, as she navigates life as a woman determined to learn from tragedies to build a remarkable life worth living even in her brokenness.
Bozoma's story is extraordinary, but her grief is not uncommon, and her courage is sure to touch any reader who has loved, mourned and is finding a path through loss and grief, as well as anyone who is navigating a pivot and wants to live life to its fullest.
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