My Unexpected Life

Finding Balance Beyond My Diagnosis

Jennifer Gasner

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Acorn Publishing
07 September 2023

Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Coping with disability; Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice

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"""A refreshing coming-of-age memoir exploring young love, college, and careers while navigating a progressing disability.""-Independent Book Review

Jennifer Gasner is seventeen when her dreams are shattered overnight.

Receiving a diagnosis of Friedreich's ataxia, a rare genetic neuromuscular disease, means she must prepare herself for a life of loss. When she starts college, she can still walk on her own, but as her disease progresses, she spirals further into sadness, denial, and alienation. She turns to alcohol and a toxic relationship to distract her from what she refuses to accept-that her body, her self-esteem, and her hope for her future are failing.

When Jennifer develops a friendship with rock star Dave Matthews, her outlook changes. She begins to understand that using a wheelchair doesn't mean her life is over. In fact, when she discovers disability culture, she realizes it's not her body that needs to be fixed but her assumptions about being disabled.

In her captivating memoir, My Unexpected Life: Finding Balance Beyond My Diagnosis,

Jennifer invites you into her world, where she must learn to view her changing body with compassion and choose gratitude over anger as she finds strength and acceptance in a whole new way of moving through life.

Hollywood Book Festival Awards Honorable Mention for biography/autobiography

Notable 100 Book, 2023 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition

Gold Book Award, Literary Titan

April 2024 Author of the Month, San Diego Central Library

Red Ribbon, The Wishing Shelf Book Awards"

By: Jennifer Gasner
Imprint: Acorn Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9798885280327
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 07 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active