{"product_id":"illness-as-love-affair","title":"Illness as Love Affair","description":"\u003ch4\u003eThe elevator door slid shut as Karen and I plunged into a kiss.\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Maybe we’re the first people to make out on the way to chemotherapy.” I joked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren had metastatic lung cancer to the brain. Doctors gave her seven months. Adding one more blow, my business collapsed the same day she collapsed in my arms, leaving us with four mortgages and no income. Her dream career was set to begin in four days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe lived nine more triumphant years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIllness as Love Affair\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how we did it: oncologists, folk healers, mystics, a surfer patient advocate, a researcher in an Italian village, a guru from India, a few quacks, a Cherokee medicine man, and a ton of friends. More importantly, our marriage grew stronger after surviving infidelity, a two-year separation, and nearly losing everything..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpiritual seekers since our twenties, we discovered the secret ingredient: a terminal illness can crack the heart open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of The Year of Magical Thinking and When Breath Becomes Air, this memoir explores faith, fate, and the love that outlasts death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Miller is the author of six books, a screenwriter, and a key figure in bringing Rumi’s work to America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e     ◆\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Heartfelt, comedic, irreverent, spiritual,\u003cbr\u003eand as deep as it gets... It is a treasure.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e~ Carol Elizabeth Cox, author\u003cbr\u003e\"Learning to Live with my Disembodied Husband\"\u003cbr\u003e---\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A raw and unflinching journey,\u003cbr\u003eone that has the power to help unravel\u003cbr\u003ethe mysteries of life and death\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e~ Tracey Schmidt, author\u003cbr\u003e\"I Have Fallen in Love with the World\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miller eMedia","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68107831214384,"sku":"9798999177223","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9798999177223.jpg?v=1792165172","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/illness-as-love-affair","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}