Tom Brokaw writes in the first sentence of his memoir, “In the seasons of life, I have had more than my fair share of summers.”

In 2013, however, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma- a treatable but incurable blood cancer. In the intimate A Lucky Life Interrupted, he writes with his well-known journalistic voice on his first year of treatment, his time left, his life past, and hope for the future.

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