{"product_id":"tina-ballerina-joseph-p-mara-9798996217205","title":"Tina Ballerina: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and New Beginnings","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, Tina Ballerina is a five year chronicle of a marriage tested by terminal illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe summer of 2009, Christine Mara discovered a lump in the shower of a rented house in Stowe, Vermont. What followed was five years of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, recurrence, and a decision made in a doctor's office in April of 2014 that only two people in the world knew about - until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTina Ballerina is the story of a marriage, a family, and a woman who met every version of the worst news a person can receive with clarity, humor, and an unshakeable sense of who she was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by the man who was holding her in his arms when she died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph P. Mara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996217205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hudson House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\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 0.34d","brand":"Joseph P. Mara","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997803163903,"sku":"9798996217205","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tina-ballerina-joseph-p-mara-9798996217205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}