num_pages: 352
description: A young woman risks everything to save her own life in this unusual riveting medical drama crafted with deep emotion and exquisite detail (BookPage).Lene Fogelberg is dyingshe is sure of itbut no doctor in Sweden her home country believes her. Love stories enfold her with her husband her two precious daughters her enchanting surroundings but the question she has carried in her heart since childhoodWill I die young?is threatening all she holds dear even her sanity. When her young family moves to the US an answer a diagnosis is finally found: she is in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. But is it too late?Unflinchingly honest and often harrowing Beautiful Affliction is an inspiring account of growing up and living on the verge of deathand of the beauty harshness loneliness and ultimately unbending love that can be found there.
language: English
title: Beautiful Affliction
publisher: She Writes Press