The beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells
her own late-in-life love story in her New York Times bestselling
"resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous
resolution (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left
Undone).
Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd
lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer.
Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one small change
in her life--she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She
ended up in Verizon hell.
She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York
Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area
psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself,
he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years
before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several
weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see
her. They were crazy, utterly, in love.
But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with
AML, a fierce leukemia.
In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between
tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring
cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love.
With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling
clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to
join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves.
A "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" by TIME, Bustle, Parade,
Publishers Weekly, Boston.com
A "Best Memoir of 2022" by Marie Claire
A "Best Memoir of April" by Vanity Fair
