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Author Hagberg Fisher, Eva, author.

Title How to be loved : a memoir of lifesaving friendship / Eva Hagberg Fisher.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
©2019

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 HAGBERG FISHER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B HAGBERG FISHER EVA H    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-HAGBERG FISHER HAG    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG HAGBERG FISHER, EVA    Check Shelf
Description 228 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost--and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help. Eva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists, boyfriends, girlfriends. Sometimes she found it, but always temporarily. Then, at age thirty, an undiscovered mass in her brain ruptured. So did her life. That first brain surgery marked the beginning of a long journey. When her illness hit a critical stage, it forced her to finally admit the long-suppressed truth: she was vulnerable, she needed help, and she longed to grow. She needed true friendship for the first time. How To Be Loved is the story of how an isolated person's life was ripped apart only to be gently stitched back together through friendship, and the recovery--of many stripes--that came along the way. It explores the isolation so many of us feel despite living in an age of constant connectivity; how our ambitions sometimes pull us apart more than bring us together; and how a simple doughnut, delivered by a caring soul, can become the essence of what makes a life valuable. With gorgeous prose shot through with joy, pain, fear, and the secret truths inside all of us, Eva writes about the friends who taught her to grow up and open her heart--and how the relentlessness of suffering can give rise to the greatest joy"-- Provided by publisher.
"A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost--and for anyone who has struggled to seek help or accept it"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Hagberg Fisher, Eva.
Mast cell disease -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Friendship -- United States -- Case studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Friendship.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
Cancer -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00845411
Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Other Form: Online version: Hagberg, Eva. How to be loved. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 9780544991163 (DLC) 2018007599
ISBN 9780544991156 hardcover
054499115X hardcover
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