';You keep fighting, okay?' I whispered. ';We're in this together. You and me. You're not alone. You hear me? You are not alone.' 5:38 p.m. It was the precise moment Sean Manning was born and the time each year that his mother wished him happy birthday.

But just before he turned twenty-seven, their tradition collapsed. A heart attack landed his mom in the hospital and uprooted Manning from his life in New York. What followed was a testament to a family's indestructible bonda life-changing odyssey that broke a boy and made a mancaptured here in Manning's indelible memoir.From the Trade Paperback edition.