{"product_id":"finish-this-before-you-die-a-memoir-9798251840599","title":"Finish This Before You Die: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tyler Dittenbir\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt twenty, Tyler Dittenbir was pulled out of college and told to get to the emergency room. A CT scan had revealed a tear in his aorta. Most patients don't survive the first twenty-four hours. He had been living with the injury for weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat followed was emergency open-heart surgery - and then, three years later, a second one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinish This Before You Die\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir about survival and everything that comes after it. It moves through the years between two open-heart surgeries and beyond: recovery, a photography program in Paris, the slow suffocation of factory work, a second surgery during COVID, watching his mother go through the same operation from the other side of the bed, and finally, a decision about what kind of life is still possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story about gratitude or transformation. It is about the quiet weight of living in a body that has already failed you once - the anxiety that never fully leaves, the identity that fractures, the gap between the life you imagined and the one you are actually living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrecise, restrained, and deeply honest, \u003ci\u003eFinish This Before You Die\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for anyone who has ever had to reckon with the fact that survival is not the same thing as living.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775887130775,"sku":"9798251840599","price":1193.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798251840599.webp?v=1777993023","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/finish-this-before-you-die-a-memoir-9798251840599","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}