This Really Isn't About You
Written by Jean Hannah Edelstein
Narrated by Jean Hannah Edelstein
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About this audiobook
In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer.
Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died.
Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too.
When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big questions in life: how do we cope with grief? How does living change when we realize we're not invincible? Does knowing our likely fate make it harder or easier to face the future? How do you motivate yourself to go on your OkCupid date when you’re struggling with your own mortality?
Written in her inimitable, wry and insightful voice, Jean Hannah Edelstein's memoir is by turns heart-breaking, hopeful and yet also disarmingly funny. This Really Isn't About You is a book about finding your way in life. Which is to say, it’s a book about discovering you are not really in control of that at all.
Jean Hannah Edelstein
Jean Hannah Edelstein is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. She writes regularly for outlets including The Guardian and The Pool, and a weekly TinyLetter, which Vogue said ‘pops up in your inbox like lucid dreaming.’ She also writes all of the marketing emails for Spotify, so you've probably deleted her work. This Really Isn’t About You is her second book.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Great story, not so great storytelling. I could relate to it on so many levels as an intercontinental expat woman myself. There were moments that made me laugh or somber, but so much of the story lacked fine detail that i wanted more — dive deeper into the details of fragile moments, deeper into the thoughts to uncover meanings of why she felt some type of way.