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Original Title:	Beautiful Affliction
ISBN:	1631529854 (ISBN13: 9781631529856)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Autobiography/Memoir III (Personal Struggle/Health Issues) (Gold) (2016), USA Best Book Award Nominee for Autobiography/Memoir (2015), International Book Awards Nominee for Autobiography/Memoirs (Finalist) (2016)

Beautiful Affliction Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Lene Fogelberg is dying—she is sure of it—but no doctor in Sweden, her home country, believes her. Love stories enfold her, with her husband, her two precious daughters, her enchanting surroundings, but the question she has carried in her heart since childhood—Will I die young?—is threatening all she holds dear, even her sanity. When her young family moves to the US, an answer, a diagnosis, is finally found: she is in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. But is it too late? A young woman risks everything to save her own life in this “unusual, riveting medical drama crafted with deep emotion and exquisite detail” (BookPage).

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Title	:	Beautiful Affliction
Author	:	Lene Fogelberg
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2015 by She Writes Press
Categories	:	Medical. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir

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Brilliantly paced, this memoir left me as breathless as if Id read a thriller about a killer circling its victim. The writing has a spare and clear rhythm. It echoes the writers constant struggle to escape the riddle that engulfs her very being from childhood to the young wife and mother she has become. When Lene Fogelberg is a child in Sweden, doctors persuade her family there is nothing wrong with her even as every breath she takes is a struggle. This memoir weaves glimpses of that past into

Lene's amazing ability to closely describe her experience has you living inside her skin, feeling the erratic beating of her heart, and breathing her laboured breaths as you share her harrowing journey through life with an undiagnosed health problem. Repeatedly told she was normal, how could she know that her terrible exhaustion was not laziness or an inability to cope with things others found easy? Yet through it all, she clings to beauty and love with a sensitivity born out of pain, and

Beautiful Affliction is a stunning debut memoir about a young woman whose fatal congenital heart condition is dismissed by the medical community in Sweden. But, it isnt only the topic that makes this memoir a page-turner. Lene Fogelberg weaves a riveting story of fear of impending death, invalidated for years as she struggles with daily fatigue, dizziness and shortness of breath. She knows something is wrong and often feels she is going insane while putting up a valiant front for her husband and

This book came at just the right time for me. Enduring a beautiful affliction all mine own, I felt like Lene and I traveled together. I am so happy that she will be healthy, even though I will not. Wonderful story, much like a lovely song of life.

This is a beautiful book. It is well written and heartbreaking and at the same time it is a brilliant reminder about how precious life is. Everyone should read this book.

This is one of the most moving memoirs I have read; also one of the most remarkable, both in topic and writing style. Lene Fogelberg is a poetic, honest writer with a strong voice to match her strong spirit. It is frightening how neglected her medical care was in Sweden; almost unbelievable that she could go all the way into adulthood and through pregnancy without a proper assessment of her heart murmur. Clearly if circumstances hadnt sent her husband and their family to the US, Lene would not

Lene Fogelberg is a wonder! Not only has she written a beautifully compelling study of the human heart and spirit in Beautiful Affliction, she has written it in English, her second language. Her poetic prose and wispy-like descriptions of the world between the worlds as she struggles to stay alive and breathe after her surgery is just fascinating. The inner world we get to experience as she lays in bed with a ventilator breathing for her is truly magical and mystical. I was brought to tears