{"product_id":"9780553802979","title":"Love, Greg \u0026 Lauren","description":"Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Lauren Manning-a wife, the   mother of a ten-month-old son, and a senior vice president and partner at Cantor   Fitzgerald-came to work, as always, at One World Trade Center. As she stepped   into the lobby, a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft, and in that split   second her life was changed forever.   \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLauren was burned over 82.5 percent of her body. As   he watched his wife lie in a drug-induced coma in the ICU of the Burn Center at   New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Greg Manning began writing a daily journal. In   the form of e-mails to family, friends, and colleagues, he recorded Lauren's   harrowing struggle-and his own tormented efforts to make sense of an act that   defies all understanding. This book is that e-mail diary: detailed, intimate,   inspiring messages that end, always, as if a prayer for a happy outcome:   \u003cem\u003eLove, Greg and Lauren\u003c\/em\u003e                                                                                                       \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  We share this story day by astonishing day. Greg writes of the intricate  surgeries, the painful therapies, and the constant risk of infection  Lauren endured. Through his eyes we come to know the doctors, nurses,  aides, and therapists who cared for her around the clock with untiring  devotion and sensitivity. We also come to know the families with whom he  shared wrenching hospital vigils for their own loved ones who were waging  a battle   that some would not win. It was, most of all, Greg's belief that Lauren  would win her brave fight for life that   kept him writing. Through his eyes we see what she could not-their  toddler's first steps, the video of his first birthday party, the  compassionate messages of hope from around the world. And we are there as  Lauren gradually emerges into awareness, signaling first with her eyes,  then with smiles, her understanding of the words Greg speaks to her, the  poems he recites, the songs he plays.   \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Most miraculously, we are there when Lauren walks out of the Burn Center.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    The world knows all too well both the nightmare and the heroism that have marked this terrible time in history. But no account of September 11 matches the astonishing personal story Greg Manning records in these  spontaneous and heartfelt pages. It is a story that invites us to share,  e-mail after e-mail, the perilous course of a mortally wounded woman who  by sheer will and courage emerges from near death because she is  determined to live for her husband and her son. And it is equally the  story of a man who, as he stays by her side through these long weeks and  months, discovers anew the depth of his love and admiration for the woman  who becomes his hero.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Greg Manning is a   graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked as a reporter, an   editor, and in senior marketing positions in the financial information industry   since 1984. He is now Director, Information Sales and Marketing, at Euro   Brokers, which was also based at the World Trade Center. He lives in New York   with his wife, Lauren, and their young son. ","brand":"Bantam Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014582747376,"sku":"9780553802979","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780553802979_p0.gif?v=1763718329","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780553802979","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}