You've Been so Lucky Already

A Memoir

By: Alethea Black

Narrated by: Alethea Black

From the award-winning author of I Knew You’d Be Lovely comes an empowering and disarmingly funny memoir about grief and illness - and the wit and wisdom it takes to survive it.

As a child, Alethea Black drifts between her father, a brilliant mathematician who is also her best friend, and her mother, a frank and outspoken woman on fire. After her father’s death, Alethea is left unmoored, a young woman more connected to life’s ethereal mysteries than to practical things such as doing laundry or paying taxes.

And then, just when life seems to be getting back on track, she’s suddenly racked by crushing fatigue, inexplicable pain, and memory loss. With her grasp on reality fading, and specialist after specialist declaring nothing is wrong, Alethea turns to her own research and desperate home remedies. But even as her frantic quest for wellness seems to lead to confusion and despair, she discovers more about her own strength than she ever could have imagined - and becomes a woman on fire herself.

©2018 Alethea Black. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Wonderful!

I loved this memoir! I immediately bought the other book she wrote. I wish there were more.

Insight into understanding chronic pain & illness

Healing myself from 20+ yrs of chronic illness and pain, this is the first story I've heard like mine that did not come from the healing stories of the Medical Medium case studies. I laughed a lot because when you're on the other side of it there's nothing else to do but find the humor and grow. as I listened to your story, we lived very different lives but we know each other through that pain and the healing Journey.

BRAVO!

What a work. This book was fresh, entertaining and so original. I ide tidied so much with this character ... I both laughed out loud and felt the depth of her emotional struggles deep into soul. I can't wait to listen to it again. Having the author perform this was genius. no one else could have done it justice.

Exceptional story and performance!

Not be missed. I've been so lucky to encounter this author and artist. Don't skip over this one. it will be a long time or forever before you encounter another story and performance like this.

Maybe if it were all about me, I'd have kept it.

It was taking a long time to get going. I couldn't find my way to sharing the author's interest in herself. Because the author narrates the book, the dose was a double one. I jumped ship near the start of part two, with about 5.5 hours left unheard. I returned it.