Throughout the book, you repeat this mantra: “You are not your sister.” Do you still find yourself saying that? Left on Tenth chronicles your leukemia diagnosis in 2017, five years after losing your sister Nora to the same cancer. The writer spoke to TIME about her illness and recovery, the importance of being open to love at any age and why emails are so romantic. The result is a book that navigates the weightiest of topics-death, love, sickness and survival-in Ephron’s signature heartfelt and humorous voice. Read More: The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2022Īfter undergoing a life-saving stem cell transplant, and navigating the depression that followed, Ephron decided to enlist a friend in helping her compile the emails, text exchanges and notes she had taken during those turbulent years. “Everything big that could happen to me happened in a very short time,” Ephron says. In her forthcoming memoir, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life, out April 12, Ephron describes their whirlwind romance-and the unexpected news that quickly changed everything: Ephron learned, four months after meeting Peter, that she’d been diagnosed with AML, an aggressive form of leukemia. The co-writer of You’ve Got Mail suddenly had a new love story of her own to navigate. Ephron didn’t remember, but that didn’t matter. Peter wrote Ephron an email, reminding her that they’d already met -Nora had set them up 54 years earlier. She wrote about her heinous experience with Verizon customer service in a New York Times op-ed that resonated with a psychiatrist named Peter, who had also lost his spouse. Then, in the months after her husband died, Ephron attempted to cancel his landline and accidentally crashed her Internet. Three years later, she also lost her husband. Her sister and collaborator, the acclaimed filmmaker and writer Nora Ephron, died of cancer in 2012. First, over the span of just a few years, the novelist and screenwriter suffered a crushing amount of loss. Delia Ephron is aware that her story sounds like it’s straight out of a movie.
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