video: RI Author Kerry Sheeran’s ‘The Marathon’ Hits Shelves on Wednesday
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Rhode Island author Kerry Sheeran debuts her nonfiction work, The Marathon on Wednesday.
The novel begins on the morning of the 2009 Boston Marathon, the author’s husband, Tom, comes across an envelope stuffed into his bag. The enclosed letter from his wife matches each of the course’s 26.2 miles with the struggles he and his family have endured during the previous, sometimes heart-breaking, 15 months.
The Marathon is available in paperback on Amazon.com; or for download from iBooks, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and Amazon Kindle. A portion of the proceeds from The Marathon will be donated to Boston Children’s Hospital in support of prenatal and neonatal care.
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The reader joins Tom on the famous route from Hopkinton to Copley Square, as the letter and the author reveal the family’s journey following the arrival of a daughter born 10 weeks premature, riddled with health complications. The Marathon plunges the reader into the Sheerans’ attempts to save the child’s life and their dwindling faith.
“When my husband told me he was going to train for the marathon, my initial thought was: ‘It’s the most difficult year of our lives, and he’s going to be out running for half of it?” said Sheeran. “Watching your child cling to his or her life is unimaginably hard. Some people take a dark turn during a crisis, others find God, and some just start running. Our story shows that there are ways of getting through the most difficult days of a child’s illness.”
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Fueled with inspiration, her story exposes the heart and soul behind the race. Humorous, emotionally raw and continually surprising, the novel appeals to parents, athletes, medical professionals, and those coping with the illness of a child.
“Staying strong requires support, endurance, love, and a lot of faith – in God and in your own parental instincts, said Sheeran "Discovering this kind of strength can become a beautiful experience -- for the parents and the child.”
Sheeran graduated with a BA in English at Villanova University before going on to a career at Money Magazine and The Wall Street Journal International. In 2002 she married and moved to Rhode Island to begin a family. Following a misdiagnosis in utero, her child was born ten weeks early with a long list of serious health complications. What happened next was unexpected, life changing, and the basis of her novel, The Marathon.
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