Absolutely adored this very raw book. It's Delia's story of losing her husband, falling in love again and almost dying of Leukemia. Being deadly sick is very traumatizing and it wasn't easy to read, but Delia brings in humor and more importantly, she brings in love and friendship and the importance of it. Her husband Peter, her friends her amazing medical team and her determination made her a survivor. This book is an amazing read and I am so happy for the great Delia Ephron. Bravo!

The queen of the rom- com writes her story of utter devastation after losing her 2 rocks, her sister and husband. It is told with complete candor with emotions bared. Her ability to grief,accept love again and then face her own illness is beyond belief. I read it in 2 sittings!

Fun, light, and an absolute treat from start to finish. Though, to be fair, I’d read just about anything that Delia Ephron wrote. Still, I’m thrilled to have added this to my library!

This memoir is about second chances at love and life. Delia Ephron is a true warrior in every sense of the word, and her vulnerability, strength, and resilience fill the pages of this memoir. Her love story with Peter is endearing and heartwarming-- all the result of a blood boiling conversation with Verizon. Delia's near death experience is shocking and devastating, but Peter's loyalty and dedication throughout is beyond admirable. I also enjoyed the incorporation of text and email exchanges as a mechanism to drive the plot.

Thank you NetGalley and Little Brown and Company for an e-book copy of LEFT ON TENTH by Delia Ephron to review.

This book caught my attention because I'm a huge fan of You've Got Mail - the screenplay Delia wrote. I also loved her sister Nora's work in journalism, books and films.

I thought LEFT ON TENTH gave a good insight into all of the feelings that are bound to come with finding love after the death of a spouse. The reader could feel how unsure Delia was, at first. And to find a second life-long partner was a true gift.

Delia takes us on her long, treacherous journey of cancer treatment. Her feelings - the ups and absolute downs - were described in a way that made you feel you were there with her.

Having been a cancer survivor myself, I could relate to a lot of what she went through. But there was a lot I couldn't. Delia had an army, and I mean army, of friends who would help her a ton. She was able to travel, including overseas, during and after treatment.

It was wonderful, for her, that she had financial and friend support. But a lot of patients do not. However, I realize this was HER journey which was particularly grueling through a bone marrow transplant.

LEFT ON TENTH would be a good read for older patients and most definitely for those who have lost a spouse and found love a second time.

I rate LEFT ON TENTH three out of five stars.

Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron was a powerful, emotionally-compelling memoir by Nora Ephron's sister. I laughed, I cried, I reread entire paragraphs multiple times just to fully appreciate the author's voice. I absolutely couldn't put this book down. Highly recommend!.

Shortly after the death of her sister Nora Ephron from leukemia, and her husband Jerry from cancer, Delia Ephron begins trying to piece her life together in her grief. She is a writer who writes in several different mediums, and after a frustrating mishap with Verizon (as she is trying is terminate her deceased husband's phone line), she writes about her experience in the newspaper.

She receives a message in response to her article from a gentleman named Peter in Northern California. They begin emailing, and then talking on the telephone, and quickly meet and fall deeply in love. He is psychiatrist and begins commuting from his home in Marin County to Delia's home in NYC and they spend most their time together, traveling, meeting each others' friends and family, and becoming partners.

Delia then receives the shock that she has leukemia also, although hers is a "different type" than her sister's was. She begins an agonizing life in hospitals, clinics, receiving transfustions, taking pills, and finally receiving a stem cell transplant. Ephron spares no detail in her ordeal and much of it is harrowing. She surely goes to hell, begging to die at one point, yet has always Peter and her army of loving friends and phenomenal doctors by her side.

The prognosis is excellent, but coming back to true emotional recovery is as arduous as her physical recovery. There is always the juxtaposition of death and rebirth, love and support amid disease and depression. Poignant and heartfelt. An excellent read as well as an education in the specifics of dealing with a deadly disease.

Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC.

I am just a few years younger than Delia Efron was at the start of her memoir. I also have a husband 22 years older than me, so I may be dealing with the loss of a husband within years rather than decades. I also lost my father last year. I even went through a similar situation trying to disconnect his landline with Verizon. (She was lucky, my situation took four months to resolve. I didn’t have the advantage of having written an Op-Ed for the NYT.). And we shared the loss of a beloved dog. So, obviously her memoir reverberated with me.
Efron writes in a very relatable style. It felt like she considered her readers as her friends. It made me wish I was a friend, her correspondence was lovely. (And thank heavens she was smart enough to save so much of it.). I cheered her good news and lamented with her over the bad. I found it heartwarming that she found love at the age of 71.
But don’t get me wrong, at times the memoir is very dark. I’m so glad I read this after a friend of mine went through a bone marrow replacement. I would have been a nervous wreck thinking of all the complications that she could have had.
Efron’s story is a reminder to enjoy life and never take it for granted. It’s a reminder that there are some truly wonderful people in this world, like her doctors and donors. Not to mention her lovely Peter.
My thanks to Netgalley and Little, Brown for an advance copy of this book.

Beautifiul and searing memoir which takes unexpected turns and looks bravely at illness and crisis. I appreciated the unflinching look at hardship here, as well as the representation of perseverance and hope.

I have really enjoyed reading this memoir and gleaning from Ephron almost like a big sister, how she's dealt with loss, aging, grief, illness, and more and so gracefully. Not particularly beautiful writing, but still an enjoyable read.

Delia Ephron has beautifully written an intimate at times heart wrenching memoir.Delia has found love twice in her life finding one Beshart is lucky but finding her first husband Jerry and then after his death due to a lucky coincidence she meets and falls deeply in love with Peter.She shares their joy both in their seventies are passionately in love .Then she is diagnosed with Leukemia not an easy treatment b.Delia is blessed with dear friends who are family and wiith Peter now her husband they rally to her side.Peter who is a Dr.himself is her guardian angel.A wonderful memoir full of emotion that kept me cheering for Delia,Peter and their love.#netgalley #lilittlebrown

The author Delia Ephron lost both her sister and husband within a short period. She uses this memoir to tell of how she survived these losses as well as a serious illness of her own.
After a harrowing experience trying to close her late husband’s Verizon landline phone, she wrote an op-Ed to the editor of The NY Times recalling the incident. That letter was read by a man she had dated in college 54 years earlier. Even thought they lived 3000 miles apart, she and that man connected. They both had mourned the loss of their spouses and soon ended up in love.
Ephron uses humorous and poignant anecdotes to show the reader that the death of a loved one is something that many of us will experience. However her experiences also give us hope that we too will we be able to survive the unthinkable.
I enjoyed this book and did not feel it was as “preachy” as some other memoirs about grieving.
I received this ARC from the publisher and Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely loved this book, it is Memoir at its best. I'm afraid my review will not do it justice. Ms. Ephron tells her stories with the intimacy of a close friend. One of the best stories is "Love and Hate on Hold with Verizon". Ms. Ephron captures the insanity of trying to get something simple corrected when you are dealing with a company that is so big it really doesn't care if you are satisfied. Her story is about Verizon, but could just as easily be about AT&T or Cable TV. The frustration, laced with humor, is universal.

Ms. Ephron tells of her desire to continue to live a life after losing her beloved husband. Her story brings hope to anyone that may think love only happens once.

Ms. Ephron also tells of her own medical trauma, without sugar-coating the horror of illness. Through it all, she encapsulates the gifts of being human and being loved.

I highly recommend this book.

Author Delia Ephron, of rom com fame, does her best to deliver her own late-in-life romance tempered by medical hardship. But the story is often more difficult than uplifting, and the author’s voice too often tries to make light of situations that just aren’t easy. Of her first husband’s last meal, she waxes long on the wonders of the take-out meal provided by friends, that should be well-known to New Yorkers. But, it was his last meal and ultimately caused her pain in reflection and therefore, isn’t really that funny or ironic. Much of the book LEFT ON TENTH came across that way to me; humor told through obvious pain. And there is plenty of pain in this tale, as well as joy, although the joy takes up less of the narrative. I received my copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron is a novel of hope. Her voice is lyrical, hesitant and moving. I wasn't sure what to expect, as I had only read works by her sister, but I found Delia's voice to be as smooth and alluring.
Without giving away the premise of the novel, I didn't want to enjoy this journey. I did, but I was a reluctant rider. I worried that with the mention of Nora, the book would become a long mourning of her sister's life. Gratefully, I was wrong.

This was a powerful memoir that really made me think about miracles and second chance love. The author's voice was straightforward, not too wordy and really told the story as it was. The discovery of her illness all while she was finding love again really brought me to tears, especially at the age of 71.

I love how Delia used all the emails/ texts/ letters from Oct 2015 (when her husband Jerry passed away) to Feb 2018 (when she's in remission and writing the book) as a basis for the story. I flew through all these journal type entries, especially because it did not only include Delia's exchanges with doctors, family and friends but also Peter's exchanges when Delia did not have the energy or awareness to communicate for herself. The opportunity to directly read about other's perspectives, attitudes and feelings throughout the entire recovery process added such a strong element to the memoir and had me in tears.  

I originally picked up this ARC because I love Delia and Nora's movies. While the content was pretty heavy, there was still a great balance of humor and warmth that will carry you through each page.