An Exercise in Uncertainty by Jonathan Gluck
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An Exercise in Uncertainty: A Memoir of Illness and Hope by Jonathan Gluck reflects on the twenty years since at age thirty-eight this new father with a promising journalism career was shocked to learn he had multiple myeloma, a rare, incurable blood cancer. He was told he had eighteen months to live. In An Exercise in Uncertainty, Gluck maps the previously uncharted territory of vexing side effects of chronic illness he explores - never knowing from one day to the next how one’s illness might change them physically, emotionally, spiritually. When you have an incurable disease, how do you cope with knowing that even when you’re in remission, it will eventually return? How do you live with the anxiety, the fear, the near-constant awareness of your mortality? For Gluck, one surprising answer is fly-fishing. If you’re looking for peace in your own sea of uncertainty, it might be something else
- 304 Pages
- Published by Harmony - June 2025
