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Author:
Eleanor Henderson
Publisher:
Flatiron Books
Date:
August 10, 2021
Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store. Escaping the clichâes of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college and culminated in a marriage and two children. On top of the typical stresses of parenting, money, and work, there were Aaron's untended wounds of depression, addiction, and family trauma. Then, when burning lesions appeared on his body overnight, Eleanor was as baffled as his doctors. There seemed to be no obvious diagnosis, let alone a cure.
What The Reviewers Say
Henderson’s writing will pull at your every heart string. She is raw, emotional, vulnerable. Through it all, she allows herself to be wholly human.
... incredible.
A relentlessly visceral memoir.
Henderson brings a novelist’s sensibility to this memoir of her 20-year marriage and the chronic illness of her husband Aaron; she weaves their history with measured prose and emotion in alternating strands.
