Everything Is a Little Broken, Rebecca Sugar
Everything Is a Little Broken, Rebecca Sugar
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Everything Is a Little Broken

Author: Rebecca Sugar

Narrator: Sarah Welborn

Unabridged: 5 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/23/2024

Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Family Life


Synopsis

Aging is hard, but watching those you love get older isn't much easier.

Everything Is a Little Broken invites listeners to both laugh and cry at some of the painful, heart-wrenching and absurd moments Mira Cayne and her father, Matt Frank, experience as age and infirmity begin to take their toll. Their story will be instantly recognizable to the 41 million Americans caring for older adults in their lives.

Matt has always been Mira's hero and her rock, but he isn't bouncing back easily from his second spinal cord surgery at the age of 79. As he grows increasingly fragile, Mira looks for ways to revive his spirit, and her own. Luckily, her father is still impossibly stubborn, and can take a good wheelchair joke. Laughing at what life is doing to his dignity seems to be the only medicine with any healing power, for both father and daughter.

Faced with nothing but time during the COVID-19 lockdown, Rebecca Sugar chose the vehicle of fiction in order to express universal truths about the challenges she was facing with her own father. Together they have laughed about everything from neuropathy to nurses to hearing aids. It helps to remember that everything is a little broken.

About Rebecca Sugar

Rebecca Sugar is a writer whose column, The Cocktail Party Contrarian, appears in the New York Sun every other Friday. Her work has also been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, USA Today, Spectator USA, Jewish News Syndicate, the Christian Post, the Jewish Journal, and more.

Rebecca holds a BA in literature from University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in history from Jewish Theological Seminary. She lives in New York City with her husband, her teenage son and daughter, and her English Bulldog, Batman.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Isabel on April 12, 2024

At the halfway point, after a line scoffing at gender studies, I realized I had been continuously disagreeing with many assumed rights-and-wrongs that seeped through the narrative. SOOoooo, I looked up the author (not the animator/screenwriter) and learned we have fundamental value differences. Sett......more

Goodreads review by Marija on March 02, 2024

This was a short, reflective novel. It gave me a glimpse of a life with parents with chronic illnesses, how that affects everyone, and the phone call that eventually comes. It is a tough theme, and the author did a good job working on it.......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on February 21, 2024

I received a free copy of, Everything Is a Little Broken, by Rebecca Sugar, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Death is an unfortunate part of life. Aging parents are things most of us have to deal with. Not any easy thing at all to deal with. Mira father is getting o......more

Goodreads review by Patty on March 09, 2024

Everything is a Little Broken A Novel Written By Rebecca Sugar Fiction Published February 2023 192 Pages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book examines the topic of adult children providing comfort, assistance, and support to their aging parents. Often these situations result in a reversal of roles for the parents and their......more

Goodreads review by natasha on April 27, 2024

I had expectations that this just didn’t meet......more