Hi Substack readers!
I’m pleased to announce that my memoir More Than We Expected: Five Years With A Remarkable Child is now available as a hardcover and an ebook. You can find it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and many other retailers right now.
For more information about the book, please visit my website: morethanamemoir.com
It’s so gratifying to see this six-year labor of love becoming real. Thank you, as always, for your support along the way. I can’t wait for you to read it.
“No matter how much I enjoyed parenthood, I found myself having to accept its fundamental truth: that nothing ever turns out quite as you’d expect.”
It was a journey that most parents would hope to avoid: a son born with a congenital heart defect, a fateful decision to take a family trip abroad, and an emergency hospitalization that left them stranded on the other side of the world with no obvious way home.
Despite these difficult circumstances, More Than We Expected is not a tragedy. Instead, this memoir offers valuable lessons about the privilege of parenthood and the practice of medicine: the mysterious ways in which the body forms and grows, giving life; how we find the faith to live with our decisions, even if the consequences are beyond our control; and a family’s extraordinary capacity—when something goes wrong—to compensate and heal.
More Than We Expected is a story of finding strength in the most unexpected places. Our children have a special ability to reveal the goodness in the world—their eyes a window to a life full of wonder. Like them, this book is a vivid reminder of what it means to be human—a miraculous, inexplicable gift, however fleeting.
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More Than We Expected is now available for pre-order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.