A M Y . S I L V E R S T E I N : S I C K . G I R L

At just twenty-four, Amy Silverstein was your typical type-A law student: smart, driven, and highly competitive. With a budding romance and a heavy academic schedule, Amy did not have time for illness—even one that caused her to black out and suffer temporary blindness. When her doctor suggested that her symptoms were due to stress and diet, she was more than happy to think calm thoughts and eat fistfuls of salt. At such a young age, how could she have guessed that her heart was about to give out?

With grace and force, Silverstein—a surprisingly irreverent narrator—chronicles her harrowing medical journey from first misdiagnosis to astonishing and ongoing recovery, all amidst a deliriously romantic bedside courtship with her husband, Scott.

WINNER—Books for a Better Life Award (click here to read more)

"Twenty years ago at age 25 Amy got a life-saving heart transplant. But that medical miracle is only part of her amazing story. The rest will surprise you. And inspire you and choke you up with tears and laughter. SICK GIRL by Amy Silverstein. Highly recommended."
   —Larry King

"The odds confronted in Silverstein's memoir, SICK GIRL, are daunting, and the crowning miracle is that she wrote this feisty, insightful, improbable book at all. Silverstein has cheated death to thrive in her post-transplant existence and to write about it with incredible courage, determination, self-scrutiny, and verve."
   —Elle Magazine

"[A] mesmeric human drama of living life as a heart transplant recipient . . . an Ivy League-trained lawyer and superb writer with a wry, biting sense of humor, Silverstein is a natural raconteur with a story so compelling readers won't want to put this book down."
   —Library Journal (starred review)

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