{"product_id":"book-bk0e","title":"The Bright Hour","description":"\u003cb\u003e* INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Stunning…heartrending…this year’s \u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air.\u003c\/i\u003e” —Nora Krug, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Beautiful and haunting.” —Matt McCarthy, MD, \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Deeply affecting…simultaneously heartbreaking and funny.” —\u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003e(Book of the Week)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Vivid, immediate.” —Laura Collins-Hughes, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eStarred reviews from * \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e* Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBest Books of 2017 Selection by * \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMost Anticipated Summer Reading Selection by * \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post * Entertainment Weekly * Glamour * The Seattle Times * Vulture * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eInStyle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookpage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookriot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e * Real Simple * The Atlanta Journal-Constitution *\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An exquisite memoir about how to live—and love—every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot. Within a year, the mother of two sons, ages seven and nine, and married sixteen years to her best friend, received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHow does one live each day, “unattached to outcome”? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eExploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, even as she wrestles with the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nina Riggs’s breathtaking memoir continues the urgent conversation that Paul Kalanithi began in his gorgeous \u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air. \u003c\/i\u003eShe asks, what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly written, disarmingly funny, and deeply moving, \u003ci\u003eThe Bright Hour\u003c\/i\u003e is about how to love all the days, even the bad ones, and it’s about the way literature, especially Emerson, and Nina’s other muse, Montaigne, can be a balm and a form of prayer. It’s a book about looking death squarely in the face and saying “this is what will be.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEspecially poignant in these uncertain times, \u003ci\u003eThe Bright Hour\u003c\/i\u003e urges us to live well and not lose sight of what makes us human: love, art, music, words.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347284435248,"sku":"BDbk0e","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49347284468016,"sku":"10bk0e","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bk0e-Square-cover.jpg?v=1770717991","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bk0e","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}