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Here's the Bright Side

Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce, and Other Bum Raps

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1 of 1 copy available

Here’s the Bright Side is a wise, moving, and funny book about what people gain from situations of loss. Using examples from her own life and from other people’s lives, Rollin inspires readers with stories that illustrate the value that can come from the hardest times in our lives and how the worst can lead to the best, resulting in happier, more powerful, richer ways of living.

Rollin writes both of lessons learned and happiness gained: about men, friends, power, and more. Rollin tells us about fair-and foul-weather friends, the usefulness of fear, the positive outcomes of failure, divorce, and widowhood and her own evolving joy as a cancer survivor.

Poignant, timely, and universal, Here’s the Bright Side is a unique and inspirational view of how life is often enriched by loss and how people find surprising light in darkness.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 1, 2007
      Award-winning television journalist Rollin, formerly an NBC correspondent and author of Last Wish
      and First, You Cry
      , urges readers to see the "bright side" of life's disasters. While there is nothing new about finding a silver lining in a cloud, this thought is only comforting if it comes from a credible source—and here, Rollin's voice is comforting. People know she went through two mastectomies back in the days when breast cancer was an unmentionable disease. The first doctor she saw ignored her cancer, but she shows how that terrible experience opened up new perspectives for her. Even the experts, she reports, find that trauma doesn't just produce stress, but "post-traumatic growth." People who've survived catastrophes may develop better self-perceptions and better relations with others. They may adopt a more meaningful life philosophy. Disaster can be a sort of wakeup call. Rollin is not religious; she never rationalizes bad things happening to good people by referring to God's mysterious ways, but she is relentlessly positive

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 25, 2007
      Rollin’s aggressively upbeat, humorous and reassuring ode to finding strength and optimism when life deals such bum raps as cancer, divorce and loss of a loved one is winningly brought to life thanks to Ward’s brisk, authoritative delivery that may remind some of Linda Ellerbee. Rollin’s pep-talk about finding an upside to every low blow is persuasive because she reveals her own anecdotes about surviving two bouts with breast cancer, a divorce and loss of a beloved parent. As Ward’s can-do narration reminds, “There is power, mountains of it, in humor,” but it also warns that illness is no joke: “A good attitude is always a good idea, but don’t count on it to cure disease.” Rollin doesn’t buy into the idea that the strong will win and the weak will lose. “I now know, as I didn’t before life nearly skidded to a halt, that, no matter what, there is usually a bright side up for grabs,” Ward intones. “One needs only to grab it.” This is an ideal gift for anyone facing hardships. Simultaneous release with the Random House hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 1).

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