{"product_id":"an-exercise-in-uncertainty-a-memoir-of-illness-and-hope","title":"An Exercise in Uncertainty","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this thought-provoking memoir, an award-winning journalist explores the chaos, doubt, and search for meaning that come with staying one step ahead of cancer for decades.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Exercise in Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e has a powerful and restorative story to tell us. Jonathan Gluck's life of illness and survival is a vital primer for us all--a lesson in how to face and comprehend two of the basic facts that render us human: We die, but much more important, we live.\"--Richard Ford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Navigates the dire straits of mortality with eloquence, wit, and intelligence.\"--Susan Orlean\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt age thirty-eight, Jonathan Gluck, a new father with a promising journalism career, was shocked to learn he had multiple myeloma, a rare, incurable blood cancer. He was told he had eighteen months to live. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat was more than twenty years ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGluck isn't just something of a medical miracle. He's also part of a growing population. Thanks to revolutionary medical advances, many cancers and other serious illnesses are no longer death sentences but chronic diseases people can often live with for years. While doctors continue to look for \"magic bullet\" cures, they can now extend patients' lives by slowing the progression of their diseases one treatment at a time. The result is a strange, new no-man's-land between being sick and being well where Gluck and millions of others reside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAn Exercise in Uncertainty, \u003c\/i\u003e Gluck maps this previously uncharted territory. Among the many vexing side effects of chronic illness he explores is uncertainty--never knowing from one day to the next how one's illness might change them physically, emotionally, spiritually. When you have an incurable disease, how do you cope with knowing that even when you're in remission, it will eventually return? How do you live with the anxiety, the fear, the near-constant awareness of your mortality? For Gluck, one surprising answer is fly-fishing. If you're looking for peace in your own sea of uncertainty, it might be something else. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Gluck will be the first to say, cancer has absolutely nothing good to offer, but almost dying has taught him valuable lessons about how to live.","brand":"Harmony","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661093142818,"sku":"9780593735787","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_a80bb275-87fd-47b3-af61-4072fc2c222b.jpg?v=1779449824","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/an-exercise-in-uncertainty-a-memoir-of-illness-and-hope","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}