I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus

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“Samantha Albert’s memoir glitters with joyful love, humour, and grace beyond measure. It is not just a delight to read, it is a literary gift.”—Alison Wearing, bestselling author of Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter“The last time I thought I was dying, I made pickles.”So opens Samantha Albert’s powerful, tenderly humorous memoir of a life lived in the shadow of death. Like most young couples, Sam and her husband had plans and fulfilling careers, a beautiful home, a baby or two, family camping trips. Everything was going according to plan until a single sentence overturned their “I have your results back.”Sam’s rare, life-threatening illness devastated both her body and her plans. Over the ensuing two decades, she managed to outlive dire prognoses again and again. But she also became a stunning embodiment of grace who chose to offer kindness in every gesture and exchange. To use her strength to make others laugh. To weave her love into a tapestry of beauty. And to make pickles.I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus is not a book about illness but rather an answer to the question so many people must How do we live the life we have rather than the one we hoped for? Show more