{"product_id":"make-a-fist-mark-lilly-9798181589193","title":"Make a Fist: A Life of Starting Over","description":"In 1981, I woke from a coma, looked at my right hand, and was given one simple instruction: make a fist. I've been making one ever since.\u003cbr\u003eMark Lilly's life has been a series of starting-overs most people wouldn't survive once: a catastrophic accident at the edge of adulthood, businesses built and lost, a marriage, a bankruptcy, and - at an age when most careers wind down - a one-way flight to China with two duffel bags and no plan B.\u003cbr\u003eWhat followed was sixteen years across eight international schools in China and Vietnam: canal towns and megacities, classrooms full of students who changed him as much as he changed them, a pandemic that stranded him on the wrong side of the Pacific, and a love story that refused to follow the itinerary. It ends where every honest story ends - mid-reach, with the next chapter unwritten.\u003cbr\u003eTold with a mathematician's eye for the facts and a survivor's refusal to flinch, Make a Fist is for anyone who has ever had to begin again: after the injury, after the loss, after fifty. It isn't a book about landing on your feet. It's a book about getting up.\u003cbr\u003eFour decades. Two continents. One instruction worth keeping: make a fist, and reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Lilly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181589193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Mark Lilly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084233941247,"sku":"9798181589193","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/make-a-fist-mark-lilly-9798181589193","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}