Passing on curves
Subtitle: while death rides shotgun
By: Craig McLaughlin
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781940462035
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Hemophiliacs; Storytellers; Biography
Other titles: Passing on curves while death rides shotgun :
Description: "In gripping essays from his stage performances, Craig McLaughlin travels a road where death lurks around every turn. At birth, he almost bleeds to death because of hemophilia. Despite the odds, he survives to adolescence but finds himself living on an exotic animal farm where the humans can be more menacing than the tigers. As a young adult he contracts HIV from contaminated blood products, and later struggles to care for his wife with breast cancer while disease threatens to orphan their daughter. McLaughlin shows tremendous reverence for both life and death. Readers will fear for him, cheer for him, and marvel at his resilience and ability to recover from misfortune."--