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Cover of Escape Points: A Memoir

Escape Points: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Weldon, Michele

Book ID
109325462
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
396 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781613733554

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✦ Synopsis

_"I don't know how Michele Weldon made wrestling, breast cancer, and single parenting tie together so naturally, so beautifully, but in fact each is a perfect metaphor for this book's message of soulful triumph." --Elizabeth Berg, _New York Times _- bestselling author, _The Dream Lover

Deftly lacing heartbreak with humor and insight, Michele Weldon provides a potent antidote to the crazy, harried, single mom stereotype in Escape Points. Untethered from a comfortable, upper-middle-class life with a handsome but abusive attorney husband, Weldon relates the challenges and triumphs of the years that followed as she raised three growing sons alone in the face of cancer, an ambitious career, and the shadow of her ex. As she maneuvers through a complicated life of long daily commutes, radiation treatments, supporting three boys' all-consuming high school wrestling careers, and trying to mitigate their hurt and resentment at an absent father,...

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