The Things That Need Doing: A Memoir

Authors: Manning, Sean
Publisher: Crown
BISAC/Subject: BIO026000, FAM032000, FAM014000
ISBN: 9780307463395, Related ISBNs: 0307463249, 0307463397, 9780307463241, 9780307463395
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 256,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: “You keep fighting, okay?” I whispered. “We’re in this together. You and me. You’re not alone. You hear me? You are not alone.

5:38 p.m. It was the precise moment Sean Manning was born and the time each year that his mother wished him happy birthday. But just before he turned twenty-seven, their tradition collapsed. A heart attack landed his mom in the hospital and uprooted Manning from his life in New York. What followed was a testament to a family’s indestructible bond—a life-changing odyssey that broke a boy and made a man—captured here in Manning’s indelible memoir.
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