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So lucky : a novel

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  • Running Time: 04:51 hrs
    Narrator: Nicola Griffith
    Publisher:
    Macmillan Audio, 2018
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Contributor: Macmillan Audio (Firm); Griffith, Nicola
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2018
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    Copyrighted
    2018
    Summary:

    From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical audiobook about a woman facing down a formidable foe. So Lucky is the sharp, surprising new audiobook by Nicola Griffith-the profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in the space of a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can't rely on family, her body is letting her down, and friends and colleagues are turning away-they treat her like a victim. She needs to break that narrative: build her own community, learn new strengths, and fight. But what do you do when you find out that the story you've been told, the story you've told yourself, is not true' How can you fight if you can't trust your body' Who can you rely on if those around you don't have your best interests at heart, and the systems designed to help do more harm than good' Mara makes a decision and acts, but her actions unleash monsters aimed squarely at the heart of her new community. This is fiction from the front lines, incandescent and urgent, a narrative juggernaut that rips through sentiment to expose the savagery of America's treatment of the disabled and chronically ill. But So Lucky also blazes with hope and a ferocious love of self, of the life that becomes possible when we stop believing lies.

    Original Publisher: New York, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Macmillan Audio, [Distributed by] RBdigital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781427297785