Lene Fogelberg is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Beautiful Affliction: A Memoir and the newly released YA novel The Lightning Tree. She loves to explore the world and has lived all over the globe—in a small Pennsylvania town, as well as in Germany, Malaysia, and Indonesia. She currently resides in her native Sweden with her family. For more information, please visit lenefogelberg.com.

Lene Fogelberg is dying—she is sure of it—but no doctor in Sweden, her home country, believes her. Love stories enfold her, with the man who will become her husband, with her enchanting surroundings, and later, with her two precious daughters. But despite her happiness, the question she has carried in her heart since childhood—Will I die young?—is closing in, threatening all she holds dear, even her sanity. When her young family moves to the US, an answer, a diagnosis, is finally found: she is in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. But is it too late?

Unflinchingly honest and often harrowing, Beautiful Affliction is an inspiring account of growing up and living on the verge of death—and of the beauty, harshness, loneliness, and, ultimately, unbending love that can be found there.