Soar: A Memoir

"This is a book about life—about living it ravenously, fully, joyously, unendingly, even if you have a death sentence." —Donna Brazile, former chair, Democratic National Committee

When Gail Campbell Woolley was seven, a pediatrician told her mother that Gail suffered from sickle cell anemia, a rare blood disease, and that she would be dead by age thirty-five. While others may have responded to this horrifying news by descending into a fog of self-pity, Gail went in the opposite directio...