Rebekah Gregory. (2017). Taking My Life Back: My Story of Faith, Determination, and Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing. Baker Publishing Group.

Rebekah Gregory. 2017. Taking My Life Back: My Story of Faith, Determination, and Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing. Baker Publishing Group.

Rebekah Gregory, Taking My Life Back: My Story of Faith, Determination, and Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing. Baker Publishing Group, 2017.

Rebekah Gregory. Taking My Life Back: My Story of Faith, Determination, and Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing. Baker Publishing Group, 2017.

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   • bioText: Rebekah Gregory is a woman and mother whose life was forever changed due to the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. This act of terrorism may have claimed her leg, but it could not claim her spirit. She is now a powerful motivational speaker who encourages people all across the country with her message of faith and hope. She lives in Houston, Texas, with her son, daughter, and her college-sweetheart-turned-husband.
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   • bioText: Anthony Flacco is a New York Times and international bestselling author with six nonfiction books and three novels to his credit. He holds an MFA in screenwriting from the American Film Institute, was selected for the Walt Disney Studios Screenwriting Fellowship, and spent a year writing for Touchstone Pictures. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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     Starred review from February 13, 2017
     It is impossible to remain unmoved by Gregory’s emotional, open memoir of surviving the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Aided by Flacco (The Road Out of Hell), she recounts, sometimes graphically, her terrifying experience from the moment the bomb exploded near her and her young son. From the start, she identifies herself as a Christian whose past adversities may have helped her find strength to overcome her injuries, both physical and mental. The prose is straightforward, and her voice is strong and self-aware when she suggests that being abused left her with a tendency to react with helplessness. There’s energy and good humor behind the pain when she describes the “Sad Skill”—“pushing honesty under the carpet”—that she developed in response to the disconnect between her father’s public and private personas. Being mistreated by her father, a preacher, led her to reject Christianity for a long time, but she found a role model in her mother, who “just lived .” The arc of the story moves from the bombing to a “happy continuation” in the conclusion. This is a truly feel-good book that doesn’t stint on the challenges that life throws at us.

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