(Bought at the Strand Bookstore) I picked up Delia Ephron's memoir because she is adapting it for the stage and it will open on Broadway this fall. The book starts out as a romantic story as her husband passes away and she meets a new man. Just as everything is going great, things take a radical left turn. Like her late sister Nora, Delia is diagnosed with leukemia. Her illness takes over her life and her new relationship. Ephron writes expressively about finding love after 70 and the burden of toxic parents. She points out that anxiety and negativity have become her comfort zones because that's what she learned from her alcoholic dysfunctional parents (the writing team Henry and Phoebe Ephron) who had movie and Broadway hits, but a troubled marriage. As her illness progresses, she despairs, but her new love pulls her out of depression and into a new life. A beautiful memoir. I'm looking forward to the play and how it will work on stage.
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