Once and Again

Once and Again

Author: Rebecca Serle Listening Length: 6h 49m

New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Serle, the author behind “heartbreaking, redemptive, and authentic” (Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author) modern classic In Five Years, returns with an unforgettable tale of a family of women with an astonishing gift: the ability to redo one moment in their lives. T...

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Dave has open-heart surgery the summer before Lauren starts the second grade. He needs three bypasses and an aortic valve replacement. Marcella is stupefied. They are so young! Not even forty! What has happened?

He has coronary artery disease. They discover this after an episode walking up the beach steps. Dave feels the sudden constriction, falls to his knees.

They are lucky they caught it when they did, the doctors say. Another few days and he’d be dead. Surgery will help for a long time—decades, perhaps—but it, like all human things, is not a permanent solve.

Marcella is woefully unprepared for this twist, this knot in the thread of her life.