02862cam a2200457 i 4500 944071103 TxAuBib 20230821120000.0 211103s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021941531 9780316267656 0316267651 9780316412834 031641283X (OCoLC)1291405222 TxAuBib rda Ephron, Delia, author. Left On Tenth : A Second Chance At Life : A Memoir / Delia Ephron. Left on 10th : a 2nd chance at life : a memoir. Left on Tenth : a memoir. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. ©2022. vii, 291 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one small change in her life--she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love. But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia. In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves. 20230821. BPL: James S. & Frances Reynolds Stanley Fund. Ephron, Delia. Authors, American 20th century Biography. Women authors, American 20th century Biography. Cancer Patients Biography. Leukemia Patients Biography. Biography. Autobiography. Biography. Autobiographies. Biographies.