Beautiful Affliction, Lene Fogelberg
Beautiful Affliction, Lene Fogelberg
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Beautiful Affliction
A Memoir

Author: Lene Fogelberg

Narrator: Henrietta Meire

Unabridged: 9 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/09/2019


Synopsis

Lene Fogelberg is dying—she is sure of it—but 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 childhood—Will I die young?—is threatening all she holds dear, even her sanity. When her young family moves to the U.S., an answer, a diagnosis, is finally found: she is in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. But is it too late?

A young woman risks everything to save her own life in this "unusual, riveting medical drama crafted with deep emotion and exquisite detail" (BookPage).

About Lene Fogelberg

Lene Fogelberg is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, an award-winning poet, and a double open-heart surgery survivor. Born in Sweden, she currently lives with her family in Malaysia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rita

Brilliantly paced, this memoir left me as breathless as if I’d read a thriller about a killer circling its victim. The writing has a spare and clear rhythm. It echoes the writer’s constant struggle to escape the “riddle” that engulfs her very being from childhood to the young wife and mother she has......more

Goodreads review by Theresa

Ok, friends, this is a fantastic read. I havent’ read many memoirs in my life, but if there are more like this, it’s a genre worth exploring more. This book has the language, the emotions, the people, the love story, the problems, the excitement, everything that makes a book completely wonderful. It......more

Goodreads review by Steven

Fogelberg has crafted a literary and beautifully compelling story about a mysterious 'monster' that is destroying her health and yet defies all medical attempts to find a cause. Once it is cast as a mental issue, no one seems interested in digging any deeper. She knows something is wrong, but no one......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl

I want to say that Lene is a very lucky woman that she is alive today to share her story. What an amazing story it is. Lene was born with a heart murmur that left untreated for many years lead to a fatal congenital heart disease. One that left Lene trapped in her body with the heart of a ninety year......more

Goodreads review by Cindy

I was drawn into this book from the beginning. Before I knew the story, Lene Fogelberg’s skillful writing promised to bring me along on her journey with honesty and respect. And what a story it is. It’s about intuition, love, weakness and strength. Family, faith, heritage. And always poetry. One of......more