{"id":676397,"date":"2025-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/11\/28\/a-reminder-that-life-is-a-gift-to-be-treasured\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:00:00","slug":"a-reminder-that-life-is-a-gift-to-be-treasured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/11\/28\/a-reminder-that-life-is-a-gift-to-be-treasured\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder that life is a gift to be treasured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>? <\/strong> <strong>No life without death. <\/strong>Irish novelist Maggie O\u2019Farrell, the author of Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait, and seven other bestsellers, is one of our age\u2019s most brilliant wordsmiths \u2014 given her range and lyrical diversity, one would imagine she had lived several lifetimes. In her 2017 memoir, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/35137915-i-am-i-am-i-am\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">I Am, I Am, I Am<\/a>, that idea appears not to be too farfetched, as the author recounts 17 near-death experiences that left her born anew, one way or another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Memoirs tend to be self-serving, but O\u2019Farrell\u2019s is anything but. <\/strong>Agonizingly honest, viscerally human, and linguistically electric, O\u2019Farrell\u2019s memoir dissects the idea of life \u2014 what it means to take it for granted, and what it means to see it almost taken away from you time and again. Over 300 pages and 17 chapters, told not in chronological order but rather in a way that traces O\u2019Farrell\u2019s physical body and the memories every tissue holds, the author presents a series of tales that feed into one\u2019s fears \u2014 what if everything that could go wrong does? What happens after?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Neck\u201d reads<\/strong><strong> the chapter title, a medical illustration in tow.<\/strong> At the age of 18, O\u2019Farrell is walking alone when she realizes the man in her periphery doesn\u2019t seem to be going away. Moments later, she instinctively realizes she is facing imminent danger, narrowly escaping. The chapter sees the encounter narrated in detail, extrapolating the incident to discuss police ambivalence, the constant belittling of women\u2019s concerns, and what happens when victims are not believed. O\u2019Farrell had escaped that night, yet that very man would come to murder a 22-year-old woman days later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>So goes the rest of the memoir \u2014 each chapter a slow and steady dissection of a <\/strong><strong>singular moment in O\u2019Farrell\u2019s life in which death came knocking<\/strong>, only to walk away empty-handed. These brushes are not exclusively her own, with some attributed to her chronically-ill daughter, for whom this memoir was written. O\u2019Farrell\u2019s life, to the reader, at times may seem incomprehensible \u2014 how does one go through so much and still manage to walk away enlivened? How can hope remain alive in the face of death? These are questions to which the answers are inferred between the lines, traced by a woman\u2019s \u2014 a mother\u2019s \u2014 braving of one storm after another. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>\u201cIt is the strangest sensation, not being able to move. It is not a heavy feeling, as you <\/strong><strong>might imagine, but light.\u201d<\/strong> I Am, I Am, I Am is one of our favorite memoirs for a variety of reasons, prime amongst them being O\u2019Farrell\u2019s vulnerability, her willingness to admit to her own shortcomings, and her unfiltered confessions. The memoir also goes beyond personal admittances and deftly tackles a variety of timely topics and issues in a manner only a seasoned writer like O\u2019Farrell can accomplish. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Gripping and awe-inspiring, the memoir is one that \u2014 despite its length \u2014 will prove a <\/strong><strong>quick read.<\/strong> The Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction laureate proves that sometimes life can indeed sometimes be stranger than fiction, that beautiful things can exist in the crevices of those which are not, and that life is a mercurial thing, never to be taken for granted. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>WHERE TO GET IT- <\/strong>You can find the paperback version at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/diwanegypt.com\/product\/i-am-i-am-i-amseventeen-brushes-with-death\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Diwan<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aseeralkotb.com\/en\/books\/i-am-i-am-i-am-seventeen-brushes-with-death\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Aseer El Kotob<\/a>. The eBook is also available on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Am-Seventeen-Brushes-Death-ebook\/dp\/B071NR513K\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>? No life without death. Irish novelist Maggie O\u2019Farrell, the author of Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait, and seven other bestsellers, is one of our age\u2019s most brilliant wordsmiths \u2014 given her range and lyrical diversity, one would imagine she had lived several lifetimes. 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