by Joseph P. Mara (Author)
For readers of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, Tina Ballerina is a five year chronicle of a marriage tested by terminal illness.
The summer of 2009, Christine Mara discovered a lump in the shower of a rented house in Stowe, Vermont. What followed was five years of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, recurrence, and a decision made in a doctor's office in April of 2014 that only two people in the world knew about - until now.
Tina Ballerina is the story of a marriage, a family, and a woman who met every version of the worst news a person can receive with clarity, humor, and an unshakeable sense of who she was.
Written by the man who was holding her in his arms when she died.
Number of Pages: 126
Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: August 04, 2026
