{"product_id":"book-28sc","title":"The Luck We Carry","description":"\u003cp\u003eRon Stempkowski met his husband Ken on a cold Chicago night in a neighborhood bar-only to fall for him a second time, two months later, in the same bar. It was the kind of meet-cute that felt like the beginning of everything. Ten years in, it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen came the second cancer diagnosis. Then the wheelchair. Then a \"soirée\" instead of a funeral-because Ken, dying, still had notes on the guest list.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Luck We Carry\u003c\/em\u003e moves through the full arc of that love story: the improbable romance, the caregiving, the 3 a.m. hospital vigils, and the strange, funny, unglamorous work of surviving what comes after-an Ambien-fueled vampire scare, a lentil-studded pie crust, a box labeled \"Relics.\" Told in personal essays that are as wickedly funny as they are devastating, this is a book about what it actually looks like to keep living after the worst has happened-not by moving on, but by moving \u003cem\u003ewith\u003c\/em\u003e the person you lost, letting them walk beside you into whatever comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by grief therapist and bestselling author Claire Bidwell Smith, and read by Stempkowski himself, \u003cem\u003eThe Luck We Carry\u003c\/em\u003e is for anyone who has loved-and lost-enough to understand that grief isn't the opposite of luck. It's the price of it, and if you're lucky, you pay it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67381811085616,"sku":"BD28sc","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-28sc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}