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Author Pataki, Allison, author.

Title Beauty in the broken places : a memoir of love, faith, and resilience / Allison Pataki ; foreword by Lee Woodruff.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, 2018.
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY PATAKI    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B PATAKI ALLISON P    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B PATAKI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  616.81 PAT    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  362.1968 PAT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  616.81 PATAKI    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B PATAKI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  362.1968 PATAKI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  362.1968 PATAKI    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  616.81 PATAKI    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xix, 245 pages, [16] unnumberred pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary "A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future. 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 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 for 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 husband's turbulent road to recovery, the shifting nature of marriage, and the struggle of loving through pain and finding joy in the broken places"-- Provided by publisher.
Recounts how the author's healthy thirty-year-old husband suffered a life-threatening stroke that placed everything they had worked for in jeopardy, a struggle she navigated by writing daily letters to her husband that helped her make sense of the challenges they faced.
Subject Pataki, Allison.
Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Biography.
Cerebral ischemia.
Young adults -- Diseases -- Biography.
Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Family relationships.
Husband and wife -- Biography.
Caregivers -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
MEDICAL / Caregiving.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Added Author Woodruff, Lee, writer of foreword.
ISBN 9780399591655 (hardback)
0399591656 (hardback)
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