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Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress

On the heels of her acclaimed book In an Instant, the #1New York Timesbestseller she wrote with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and with the same candor and charm, Lee Woodruff now chronicles her life as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Woodruff's deeply personal and, at times, uproariously funny stories highlight such universal topics as family, marriage, friends, and how life never seems to go as planned. From raising teenagers ("Now with a boy and girl on the precipice of serious adolescence, the bathroom door is sealed tighter than a government nuclear testing ground") to how she copes with tragedy ("Swimming surrounds me in the velvet wet of a bluish green world where I can dive deep down and sob with no trace"), Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progressis the testimonial of a woman who embraces the chaos of her surroundings, discovers the splendor of life's flaws, and accepts that perfection is as impossible to achieve as a spotless kitchen floor.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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