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In Building Mountains from Dust, Kimberly Young shares her story of survival and inspiration. At fifty, Kimberlys structured, organized, and driven life is thrown into a tailspin when she is diagnosed with advanced staged lung cancer. Never a smoker, Kimberly makes frank reflections about her decision not to have children, and how she makes peace with her mother, who aband
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Any book that starts out with a Stevie Nicks quote is a winner for me and this book did not disappoint.
'Building Mountains from Dust: A Memoir' is the story of a fifty year old woman named Kimberly Young, who goes from thinking that she is perfectly healthy one day to being diagnosed with advanced stage lung cancer the next. To top that off, her husband is battling health issues of his own and dies. What follows is the story of her inner emotional journey through coming to terms with her diagno ...more
'Building Mountains from Dust: A Memoir' is the story of a fifty year old woman named Kimberly Young, who goes from thinking that she is perfectly healthy one day to being diagnosed with advanced stage lung cancer the next. To top that off, her husband is battling health issues of his own and dies. What follows is the story of her inner emotional journey through coming to terms with her diagno ...more
Building Mountains from Dust us a touching memoir, the authors battle with advanced-staged lung cancer is the center point of the book. You become part of the author's life lessons, forgiveness, love, loss, and heartbreak. Learning more about Young's expectations if life, in herself and in to read her failures was heartbreaking and uplifting.
Building Mountains from Dust is a memoir with flashbacks in both perspectives. Life is full of choices, Young gives us a unique love story in Building M ...more
Building Mountains from Dust is a memoir with flashbacks in both perspectives. Life is full of choices, Young gives us a unique love story in Building M ...more
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