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Bedsores and Bliss

Hanna Du Plessis

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English
Okay Then
08 November 2024
A vivid, heart-lifting and heart-breaking report from the teetering balance between devastation and joy. These short writings form a collage of Hanna du Plessis' experience through two years of life after receiving a terminal diagnosis of ALS. Hanna gives us rare insight into the details of her experience with a progressive disease while also earning a graduate degree in creative writing and traveling the world. These short essays are laced with sharp detail, surprising humor, and observations about how to live and die. We all experience endings, fadings, losses and deaths. Hanna helps us find grace in the mundane and wonder in the wreckage. Hanna's whimsical sketches make delightful companions to her vivid and often humorous language. It is rare to find these two things so well-forged together: an unflinching gaze into loss and an undaunted determination to fully experience life.
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Imprint:   Okay Then
Dimensions:   Height: 152mm,  Width: 102mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   45g
ISBN:   9798990250932
Pages:   76
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Hanna's life has centered on the possibility that people can co-create a thriving world. After growing up in apartheid South Africa, Hanna came to the US in 2009 to study design. Shortly after, she embarked on a mission to transform herself and share what she learned with others, ""so we can get good at the collective work of healing, repairing, and re-weaving."" Hanna has co-hosted dozens of spaces of transformation-gatherings of change leaders, student cohorts, and entire organizations. She has been an artist, a dancer, a writer, and performed improv on stage. In March of 2023, Hanna was diagnosed with ALS, a degenerative neuromuscular disease that slowly robs the body of its functions. She has committed her remaining time to writing, adventuring with her family and being in her beloved community.

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