Left on Tenth - Delia Ephron

Left on Tenth

By Delia Ephron

  • Release Date: 2022-04-12
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 186 Ratings)

Description

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone).
Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life—she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell.
 
She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love.
 
But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia.
 
In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves.

A "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" by TIMEBustleParadePublishers WeeklyBoston.com
A "Best Memoir of 2022" by Marie Claire
A "Best Memoir of April" by Vanity Fair

 

Reviews

  • Left on 10th

    4
    By 323EL
    Delia Ephron knows herself, and that makes it very interesting to read her story and to learn about her life.
  • A beautiful and powerful story of love, hope and recovery

    5
    By pvbliz
    I absolutely loved everything about this beautifully written book. I couldn’t put it down.
  • Had AML also

    4
    By KFR3
    I was 56 when I had my blood cell transplant. All transplants are different, but we share a lot of the same emotions. The writing of her experience recovering from the transplant was familiar to me. At times during my graft versus host period, I really wanted to die. You get very tired of living with constant pain. She expressed that well.
  • Being brave

    5
    By Cars2345
    This is a well and smoothly written book about one’s life journey through the grand, the ugly and the redemption. It helped me understand the power of a great support group of friendships.

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