- Title:
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The Bright Hour
- Written by:
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Nina Riggs
- Read by:
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Cassandra Campbell; Kirby Heyborne
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 36 minutes
- Published:
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February 28 2018
- Available Date:
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February 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489426536
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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#1 New York Times bestseller
An intimate, unflinching account of 'living with death in the room'.
'We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other.'
Nina Riggs was just 37 years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer – one small spot. Within a year, the mother of two sons, ages seven and nine, and married sixteen years to her best friend, received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal.
How does one live each day, 'unattached to outcome'? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty?
Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship and memory, even as she wrestles with the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nina Riggs’s breathtaking memoir continues the urgent conversation that Paul Kalanithi began in his gorgeous When Breath Becomes Air. She asks, what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time?
Brilliantly written, disarmingly funny and deeply moving, The Bright Hour is about how to love all the days, even the bad ones, and it’s about the way literature, especially Emerson, and Nina’s other muse, Montaigne, can be a balm and a form of prayer. It’s a book about looking death squarely in the face and saying 'this is what will be'.
Especially poignant in these uncertain times, The Bright Hour urges us to live well and not lose sight of what makes us human: love, art, music, words.
'You can read a multitude books about how to die, but Riggs, a dying woman, will show you how to live.'
New York Times Book Review
'Deeply affecting … simultaneously heartbreaking and funny.'
People (Book of the Week)
'Whether confronting disease or not, everyone should read this beautifully crafted book as it imbues life and loved ones with a particularly transcendent glow.'
Library Journal, starred review
'In this tender memoir Riggs displays a keen awareness of and reverence for all the moments of life – both the light, and the dark, "the cruel, and the beautiful."'
Publishers Weekly, starred
'A luminous, heartbreaking symphony of wit, wisdom, pain, parenting, and perseverance against insurmountable odds.'
Kirkus Reviews, starred