PDF Love You Hard A Memoir of Marriage Brain Injury and Reinventing Love Audible Audio Edition Abby Maslin Penguin Audio Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 9 hours and 45 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Penguin Audio Audible.com Release Date March 12, 2019 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B07N7JHXY5

Love You Hard A Memoir of Marriage Brain Injury and Reinventing Love Audible Audio Edition Abby Maslin Penguin Audio Books Reviews

• When someone has an extraordinary story to tell, a publisher usually enlists a seasoned writer to co-author the book, since it rarely happens that the storyteller is also a highly gifted and undiscovered author in her own right. Abby Maslin is clearly one such rarity -- someone with a truly inspiring story, and the inherent literary ability to give it a proper voice. Thus even while appreciating the stunning, inspiring story of love and perseverance of Abby and her husband, it's hard not to admire the craftsmanship of the writing itself.
  Put another way, if you have any interest at all in this book (and the fact that you are reading reviews suggests you do), just buy it. Apart from the time well spent reading this story of reinvention and renewal, you'll be telling the publishing world that it remains commercially viable to let writers such as Maslin have a free hand in being the sole narrators of their stories.
• I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN!!! Seriously, the second I started reading I was glued to it. Reading on the go, in public, even at a rock concert! (Sorry, Animal Collective!) Abby hooked me with her blog back when TC's assault first happened. The way she writes, it's like she's speaking directly to you. Like you're the most intimate of friends. She bares her whole soul in her writing, sparing no detail of the attack and the aftermath. Not just on TC's health, but their marriage and her own mental well-being. You will not make it through this without being moved to tears. While TC's assault and recovery from the resulting traumatic brain injury are unique, the way Abby reflects on love and humanity is universal. Everyone can benefit from reading this book. You will be forever changed. For the better. Order this now - and get an extra copy for your mom, your best friend, your local library... oh, and also be sure to follow Abby on social media. She is one of the most compassionate, genuine, inspiring and brilliant voices of our tumultuous generation.
• If you read one book this year, read LOVE YOU HARD by Abby Maslen. I read it in a day...I could not put it down. What a beautiful love story. By beautiful, I do not mean perfect. By beautiful, I mean real. Traumatic brain injuries can shake any family to the core. The person you knew is no longer there. How do you cope? Do you stay? Do you walk away? Do you fall in love all over again despite the self-perceived flaws on both sides of the story. It takes grit and it takes a stubborn soul to make it work all over again. This young couple made it all work again, but never made light of their situation or their relationship. I'm sure if the author had put all the trials and tribulations in this book, it would be thousands of pages long! We have all had our own up and downs. I think what I like, no...LOVE, about this book is that it can make you look at the big picture. Sometimes we all forget to do that when we are worried about the little pieces of our lives. By the time you finish the book, you feel as though you know the author and her husband personally. I would love to sit down and enjoy a glass of wine with them!
• I am a slow reader and will often take months to finish a book, diligently working my way through 20-30 minutes of reading a day. But I received Love You Hard on a Tuesday and literally read it every spare moment between job, kids, and sleep until I finished the book three days later on Friday evening. I hung on Abby's every word. She doesn't shy away from documenting the difficult, heartbreaking moments, weeks, months and years that became her life as the caregiver to her husband with a TBI after a brutal assault. But this book is not at all just for the TBI community or for caregivers. Abby tells the story of how she reinvented the value and depth of how to love herself, her husband, and indeed contribute to the world in a deeply compassionate, active and meaningful way.
• We have all been hit by life in excruciating, unjust, and unforeseen ways...and left with the question of "what do I do now?" In Love You Hard, Abby Maslin takes that primordial human experience and explores it through the intimate account of nearly losing her husband--and her marriage--to assault and brain injury. Through graceful language, raw emotion, and even self-deprecating humor, she relates how she and her husband faced extreme trauma and re-built their vision of themselves as individuals and as a unit. It's a narrative that everyone can relate to whether or not they've personally dealt with traumatic brain injury. And it leaves you feeling connected to the world, and hopeful for the future.
  
  I tore through this book. You will too.
• It’s amazing that a couple can survive an ordeal like the one the Maslins went through. However, they didn’t just survive; they rebuilt themselves and their family. Despite the horror they endured - which Abby Maslin’s eye for detail helps her render in exquisite, painful detail - they seem somehow able to squeeze any drop of goodness they can from a situation that would break most people.
  
  Reading this, I was amazed that such a beautiful, tragic, heart-wrenching story involved as one of its two main players someone with such an incredible gift for writing. Maslin’s play by play descriptions of the hours and days after the attack could have been a painful slog for her readers, who may already know some of the violent details from the news. Instead, her finely drawn descriptions - such as when she contrasted her healthy husband’s sweaty, capable body after a run with the broken shell she finds in the ICU - are paired with insightful observations of each circumstance they encounter. The way she describes the people in their lives and their relationships to each other and themselves is unique.
  
  The moments when she observes and articulates subtle shifts (from TC’s mom to herself as the woman who cares for him most, or her allegiance from her dad to her husband) are relatable and demonstrate a keen interpersonal empathy.
  
  Read this book for its honesty, its message of hope and to be inspired by regular people who did extraordinary things.