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Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter
An intimate, candid memoir about a lifelong struggle to speak. "Soulful...Profoundly moving."--Esquire "Life On Delay brims with...
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An intimate, candid memoir about a lifelong struggle to speak. "Soulful...Profoundly moving."--Esquire "Life On Delay brims with empathy and honesty ... It moved me in ways that I haven't experienced before. It's fantastic."--Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed
"I can't remember the last time I read a book that made me want to both cry and cheer so much, often at the same time."--Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden's decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching readers around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson's life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain. He soon learned he wasn't alone with his feelings: strangers who stutter began sending him their own personal stories, something that continues to this day. Now, in this reported memoir, Hendrickson takes us deep inside the mind and heart of a stutterer as he sets out to answer lingering questions about himself and his condition that he was often too afraid to ask. In Life on Delay, Hendrickson writes candidly about bullying, substance abuse, depression, isolation, and other issues stutterers like him face daily. He explores the intricate family dynamics surrounding his own stutter and revisits key people from his past in unguarded interviews. Readers get an over-the-shoulder view of his childhood; his career as a journalist, which once seemed impossible; and his search for a romantic partner. Along the way, Hendrickson guides us through the evolution of speech therapy, the controversial quest for a "magic pill" to end stuttering, and the burgeoning self-help movement within the stuttering community. Beyond his own experiences, he shares portraits of fellow stutterers who have changed his life, and he writes about a pioneering doctor who is upending the field of speech therapy. Life on Delay is an indelible account of perseverance, a soulful narrative about not giving up, and a glimpse into the process of making peace with our past and present selves.
Author: John Hendrickson
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 01/17/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.08w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780593319130
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2022 pg. 15
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2022
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2022
Booklist 12/01/2022 pg. 98
"I can't remember the last time I read a book that made me want to both cry and cheer so much, often at the same time."--Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden's decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching readers around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson's life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain. He soon learned he wasn't alone with his feelings: strangers who stutter began sending him their own personal stories, something that continues to this day. Now, in this reported memoir, Hendrickson takes us deep inside the mind and heart of a stutterer as he sets out to answer lingering questions about himself and his condition that he was often too afraid to ask. In Life on Delay, Hendrickson writes candidly about bullying, substance abuse, depression, isolation, and other issues stutterers like him face daily. He explores the intricate family dynamics surrounding his own stutter and revisits key people from his past in unguarded interviews. Readers get an over-the-shoulder view of his childhood; his career as a journalist, which once seemed impossible; and his search for a romantic partner. Along the way, Hendrickson guides us through the evolution of speech therapy, the controversial quest for a "magic pill" to end stuttering, and the burgeoning self-help movement within the stuttering community. Beyond his own experiences, he shares portraits of fellow stutterers who have changed his life, and he writes about a pioneering doctor who is upending the field of speech therapy. Life on Delay is an indelible account of perseverance, a soulful narrative about not giving up, and a glimpse into the process of making peace with our past and present selves.
Author: John Hendrickson
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 01/17/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.08w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780593319130
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2022 pg. 15
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2022
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2022
Booklist 12/01/2022 pg. 98
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