Your Hearts, Your Scars

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By Adina Talve-Goodman

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Your Hearts, Your Scars by Adina Talve-Goodman is a poignant memoir that explores the author's journey through life after a heart transplant. It delves into themes of gratitude, resilience and the search for meaning as she navigates the complexities of living with someone else's heart, offering insights into the depths of human connection and the fragility of life.
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Your Hearts, Your Scars

Description

Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a gift

Adina Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition and survived multiple operations over the course of her childhood, including a heart transplant at age nineteen. In these seven essays, she tells the story of her chronic illness and her youthful search for love and meaning, never forgetting that her adult life is tied to the loss of another person—the donor of her transplanted heart.

Whether writing about the experience of taking her old heart home from the hospital (and passing it around the Thanksgiving table), a summer camp for young transplant patients, or a memorable night on the town, Talve-Goodman's writing is filled with curiosity, humour, and compassion. Published posthumously, Your Hearts, Your Scars is the work of a writer wise beyond her years, a moving reflection on chance and gratitude, and a testament to hope and kindness.

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Your Hearts, Your Scars is praised for its sharp observation, humour, and profound insights into the author's experience with chronic illness and organ transplantation. The book's essays are described as candid, deeply felt, and captivating, mixing humour and compassion. Many reviewers comment on Adina Talve-Goodman's ability to educate and reflect on life joyfully despite challenges, leaving a lasting impact through her heartfelt and charismatic writing.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781954276055

Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 March 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Bellevue Literary Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Hannah Tinti
Foreword by Jo Firestone
Edited by Sarika Talve-Goodman

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 190.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 144

Collections

Adina Talve-Goodman Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Grief & Loss Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Science & Technology Biographies Self-Help & Personal Development Women's Health

About the Author

Adina Talve-Goodman (19862018) was born in St. Louis with a congenital heart condition and underwent a heart transplant at age nineteen. She went on to graduate from Washington University, and perform internationally at the Academia dell'Arte in Italy and Globe Theater in London. She later become a mentor for Girls Write Now and the managing editor of celebrated literary magazine One Story, and was recognized with the Hadassah Advocacy Award and Bellevue Literary Review Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction. She was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma, caused by post-transplant immunosuppressants, as she was attending the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and working on what would become her debut collection of essays Your Hearts, Your Scars.