
How The Hole In My Heart Almost Killed Me
I had three strokes in my thirties and nearly missed out on a life with my daughter thanks to an undiagnosed congenital heart defect.
Joshua Mohr is the author of four novels, including “Damascus,” which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Some Things that Meant the World to Me,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller, as well as “Termite Parade,” an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the MFA program at USF. His latest novel is “Fight Song.”
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I had three strokes in my thirties and nearly missed out on a life with my daughter thanks to an undiagnosed congenital heart defect.