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Random House
April 2011
On Sale: April 12, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0307717496
EAN: 9780307717498
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Non-Fiction Memoir
“I know. I know. No one says it but I know…” —from Signs of Life
Twenty-four-year-old Natalie Taylor was leading a charmed
life. At the age of twenty four, she had a fulfilling job as
a high school English teacher, a wonderful husband, a new
house and a baby on the way. Then, while visiting her
sister, she gets the news that Josh has died in a freak
accident. Four months before the birth of her son, Natalie
is leveled by loss.
What follows is an incredibly powerful emotional journey, as
Natalie calls upon resources she didn’t even know she had in
order to re-imagine and re-build a life for her and her son.
In vivid and immediate detail, Natalie documents her life
from the day of Josh’s death through the birth their son,
Kai, as she struggles in her role as a new mother where
everyone is watching her for signs of impending collapse.
With honesty, raw pain, and most surprising, a wicked sense
of humor, Natalie recounts the agonies and unexpected joys
of her new life. There is the frustration of holidays,
navigating the relationship with her in-laws, the comfort
she finds and unlikely friendship she forges in support
groups and the utterly breathtaking, but often overwhelming
new motherhood. When she returns to the classroom, she
finds that little is more healing than the honesty and
egocentricity of teenagers.
Drawing on lessons from beloved books like The Color Purple
and The Catcher in the Rye and the talk shows she suddenly
can’t get enough of, from the strength of her family and
friends, and from a rich fantasy life—including a saucy
fairy godmother who guides her grieving—Natalie embarks on
the ultimate journey of self-discovery and realizes you can
sometimes find the best in yourself during the worst life
has to offer. And she delivers these lessons, in way that
feels like she’s right beside you in her bathrobe and with a
glass of wine--the cool, funny girlfriend you love to stay
up all night with.
Unforgettable and utterly absorbing, Signs of Life features
a powerful, wholly original debut voice that will have you
crying and laughing to the very last page.
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