The Urgent Life The Urgent Life

The Urgent Life

My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

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Publisher Description

"The Urgent Life shines a bright light on the intricacies of the shadows she’s been in, and illuminates the beauty of her urgent life.” —Serena Williams

From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes a memoir of grief, and one woman's drive to thrive in the face of loss


When Bozoma Saint John's husband, Peter, died of cancer, she made one big decision: to live life urgently. Bozoma was no stranger to adversity, having lost her college boyfriend to suicide, navigated an interracial marriage, grieved a child born prematurely--a process that led to her and Peter's separation--and coparented the daughter who she and Peter shared. When Peter knew his cancer was terminal, he gave Bozoma a short list of things to do: cancel the divorce, and fix the wrongs immediately. 

 In The Urgent Life, Bozoma takes readers through the dizzying, numbing days of multiple griefs, and the courage which these sparked in her to live life in accordance with her deepest values time and time again. We witness Bozoma's journey forward through the highs and the lows, as she negotiates life as a woman determined to learn from tragedies to build a remarkable life worth living even in her brokenness.

Bozoma's story is extraordinary, but her grief is not uncommon, and her courage is sure to touch any reader who has loved, mourned and is finding a path through loss and grief, as well as anyone who is maneuvering a pivot and wants to live life to its fullest.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2023
February 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
4.9
MB

Customer Reviews

AM KC ,

Interesting

Loving and sad. Hits all the feels. Sweet and honest. I really enjoyed her writing style

Msjacks88n ,

Beautiful

Great story of strength and finding joy in the dark times.

greatlit ,

I do not think this is true!

When she claims on page 100 that she could smell death “sweet but also tart” on her husband, I realized that her story is extreme in every detail: her name is derived from “goddess,” she looks like a model, she is brilliant, her father was a king, she got her start by impressing Spike Lee, her special talent is knowing how to manipulate & take advantage of anyone in the room (what?), her boyfriend commits suicide because she does not return his call right away, she knows the moment she conceives a child, and her young husband suddenly dies from cancer. Truly disturbing, but I do not think for the purported reasons.

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