9780399591679-0399591672-Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

ISBN-13: 9780399591679
ISBN-10: 0399591672
Edition: Reprint
Author: Allison Pataki
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780399591679
ISBN-10: 0399591672
Edition: Reprint
Author: Allison Pataki
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 272 pages

Summary

Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience (ISBN-13: 9780399591679 and ISBN-10: 0399591672), written by authors Allison Pataki, was published by Random House Trade Paperbacks in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.7.

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“An inspiring, intimate memoir about faith, resilience and the tenacity of love.”—People

“In this emotional tale, a young couple see their lives changed in the blink of an eye—and learn to find love again.”—US Weekly

Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave—a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident—had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke. Next thing Allison knew, she was sitting alone in the ER in Fargo, North Dakota, waiting to hear if her husband would survive the night.

When Dave woke up, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. Allison had lost the Dave she knew and loved when he lost consciousness on the plane. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, struggling with the fear of what was to come.

As a way to make sense of the pain and chaos of their new reality, Allison started to write daily letters to Dave. Not only would she work to make sense of the unfathomable experiences unfolding around her, but her letters would provide Dave with the memories he could not make on his own. She was writing to preserve their past, protect their present, and fight for their future. Those letters became the foundation of this beautiful, intimate memoir. And in the process, she fell in love with her husband all over again.

This is a manifesto for living, an ultimately uplifting story about the transformative power of faith and resilience. It’s a tale of a man’s turbulent road to recovery, the shifting nature of marriage, and the struggle of loving through pain and finding joy in the broken places.

Praise for Beauty in the Broken Places

“Bold and commendable . . . A strength of this memoir is [Allison Pataki’s] scrupulous honesty.”USA Today

“A memoir about . . . determination and gratitude, and the value of putting one foot in front of another during a crisis.”The Washington Post

“Heart-wrenching.”Women’s Health

“Powerful and immersive . . . Pataki delivers an insightful look at how two people faced a life-altering test as a team ‘fighting to make the dreams of our future possible.’”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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