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Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2025
Funny - Upper Westside - A New York Story with a universal theme - love, being on woman, aging, infidelity,illness, all of the things that happened when you are alive and love and age and engage - Nora Ephron'ssister - she is just as funny and ironic - you will laugh out loud and also tear up - her honesty about uncomfortablethings is refreshing and disarming - a good novel to read when you are relaxed and already know that life iscrazy - Illness is very challenging and not funny and the author ignores that expertly.
mary kay peterson
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2025
Inspiring, uplifting in the face of challenges, easy to read. Ephron’s style of writing is like she’s sitting across from you. Her life events are relatable and thoughts verbally expressed when otherwise silenced. This book left me with a feeling of hope for medical technology and a better insight into the patient’s perspective. A reality-check book with positive spin.
Marianna
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2025
Recommend this book to everybody who had and also to whom never had cancer. Delia is the ultimate survivor of it.
Older attorney
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2025
I recently lost my wife of 55 years and it killed me. I heard about this book and thought I would give it a try. After reading it I learned that all of my feelings are normal, why, what could I have done differently? I have recommended this book to all of my friends and family members who love someone. Someday, someone you love is going to die. Reading this book will help, it’s helped me so very much. Thank you Delia.
Gigi Eisenberg
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2024
The writing is good but the subject is so depressing! This book is about a second chance at life and love but much more about her bout with leukemia and the horrible time she had with the treatment!
Lynne M. Spreen
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2024
After losing her husband Jerry, Delia was diagnosed with leukemia, the same disease that had claimed her sister Nora. At 70, she found support from Peter, a new partner who helped her navigate treatments. The initial response to treatment was promising, but the leukemia returned. Delia then faced the difficult decision of whether to undergo a high-risk bone marrow transplant, a challenging option given her age. Throughout, Peter and a circle of close friends offered steady support. This was a harrowing memoir by a gutsy survivor.
FullMind
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2024
I've grown to like reading memoirs, especially of people I feel I can admire and/or emulate. As a writer myself, though an unsuccessful one, I read Delia Ephron's memoir with both admiration and envy. Also as a retired psychotherapist, I read it with an analytic mind and have to say I'm both impressed and appalled at how dependent Ms. Ephron is. The book makes it sound like she doesn't decide whether to use the bathroom without consulting one of her friends or family. Probably because I'm so far opposite that way, a loner who rarely has the luxury of asking anyone for advice about anything, not that I would if I could, as I've learned throughout my life to trust my own decisions. Sure, I've also learned to listen to the views of others, but as I don't have that many others, it doesn't happen much.Delia is obviously an excellent writer and reading this work is easy and pleasant, except for the somewhat unpleasant emotions that arise in me as I read. For example, the book confirms for me how much easier life can be for people with money. Each time recently that I've had my own medical issues and had to be in hospital, I've wished I could have afforded a single room. Well, now I read about Delia and her single room while ill in hospital. Between all the support she's fortunate enough to have and what she's able to afford, life appears to be much easier for her than for most of the rest of us. She's lucky and to her credit, she acknowledges it. At the same time she's contributed much to the reading and viewing enjoyment of many people.Anyway, Left on Tenth is worth reading!
sue mercer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2023
I absolutely devoured this. I was drawn to the title and bought it on my kindle. At the time I didn’t realise that she was Nora’s sister. This became strictly personal to me when she spoke of her journey with AML and the transplant procedure. I too was diagnosed with AML at the end of 2010. After the initial shock and terror I traversed my way through the process. Like Delia I have an Ashkenazi heritage and a donor was not available. Consequently I had a third course of danarbicin and cytalibrin. Eventually a donor was found in Austria but not before I’d booked a trip to a raw food institution in Florida. Upon my return to my home in the U K I was admitted for the SCT which progressed extremely well,and I was discharged home to recover. Within 6 months I’d visited New York and family in the UK. My life continued to progress well until May 2017 after nearly 6 years of perfect health the leukaemia came back. By now I was 62 but still in good health. Once more a donor couldn’t be found and worse still, the chemo didn’t work. The leukaemia was refractory. It seemed there was little hope. Then my haematologist took a chance on a half match (haplo) from my son and even though I was not in remission we went ahead with a very harsh myeloblative regime which basically wiped out my own marrow. Amazingly it was successful but there were many obstacles along the way, or nuisances as my haematologist termed them. I developed Graft versus host disease and this affected my lungs. I was in and out of hospital with respiratory failure and AF amongst other things. I related so much to Delias experience with ICU, depression and failure to thrive. My eyes were also affected and I felt like I’d aged 20 years. We were starting to get back to some normality when COVID arrived. This is another story! I’m coming up to 6 years now post transplant and am starting to feel stronger and return to life - not as I knew it but as an older, maybe wiser woman. Thank you Delia
MBmb
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2023
I chose this book because I enjoyed Delia Ephron's previous non-fiction book, "Sister Mother Husband Dog," I liked her movies and play, and I liked Nora Ephron's books beginning with Heartburn. This memoir was not what I expected after reading the blurbs. While the book starts out with the loss of her husband and unexpectedly finding a new love, most of the book is a detailed description of Delia's long grueling horrific battle with leukemia. I read it cover to cover, but I imagine many readers would not be prepared for this. That said, if I was going to read this subject matter, I would want to read Delia Ephron's version. I would rate it 4+.
RJS
Reviewed in Canada on October 28, 2023
It's not often that I read a book where I'm laughing on one page and crying on the next. This well-written book grabs the reader from the outset. It begins with loss and then recapturing life through something unexpected, and then moves onto real human crisis. The book is written in a very conversational style, in a way which humanizes the author, Delia Ephron. I loved it and have recommended it to a few people.
Roberta Fullerton
Reviewed in Canada on April 14, 2023
This book is an honest account of what the author went through. I found it to be such a heartfelt story of her journey that can relate to so many readers. Thank you Delia for being courageous and honest in your writing. I have recommended it to many friends.
C. C.
Reviewed in Italy on May 30, 2022
Delia Ephron takes us into her home, in the delicate moments of her recent life. And we readers are honored to enter with discretion.A true, delicate, funny and true New York story, for us reader who love Manhattan and Greenwich Village.
Elsie Marina
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2022
An amazing book about hope, life and love. I read it in two sessions and will read it again. Delia is an inspiration.
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