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The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Bozoma Saint John
2 reviews
maybak's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
I’ve enjoyed listening to this audiobook. Bozoma Saint-John narrates her own story so we truly get a first-hand account from her. Her bubbly and go-getter personality shines through the recording. I knew little about her personal life and to my surprise, I learned that she had to grapple with loss early in life. Her college boyfriend, Ben, was depressed and ended up committing suicide.
I was expecting to hear more about her impressive career however, her memoir focuses more on her personal life. Bozoma Saint-John takes us through her life, from her upbringing as a Ghanaian-American girl with staunchly traditional Ghanaian parents to her college flings and the life she shared with Peter, the love of her life and father to her daughter before he died from cancer.
This book delves deeply into the topic of loss and grief, love and harship, and resilience. It can be a bit depressing but it’s really relatable as she experienced the loss of her college boyfriend, the divorce of her parents, the passing of her first child, Eve, and of her late husband Peter.
This book sheds light on how Bozoma lived through all these traumatic experiences and how it changed her from the inside out—prompting her to live her life with urgency.
I was expecting to hear more about her impressive career however, her memoir focuses more on her personal life. Bozoma Saint-John takes us through her life, from her upbringing as a Ghanaian-American girl with staunchly traditional Ghanaian parents to her college flings and the life she shared with Peter, the love of her life and father to her daughter before he died from cancer.
This book delves deeply into the topic of loss and grief, love and harship, and resilience. It can be a bit depressing but it’s really relatable as she experienced the loss of her college boyfriend, the divorce of her parents, the passing of her first child, Eve, and of her late husband Peter.
This book sheds light on how Bozoma lived through all these traumatic experiences and how it changed her from the inside out—prompting her to live her life with urgency.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Cancer
kerryamchugh's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Cancer, Infidelity, Suicide, Child death, Death of parent, and Grief
Minor: Racism
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