Across a span of years marked by a child's death, cancer, a transplanted heart, and a neurological diagnosis, New Zealand author Nic Russell has arrived not at bitterness but at a kind of hard-won, humor-laced gratitude. Her memoir Bollix and her charity Kenzie's Gift stand as evidence that grief, when neither denied nor surrendered to, can be shaped into something that sustains both the one who carries it and others who witness it. Hers is a story about what it means to keep making plans when every plan has already been broken.
'Life Changed Forever': Author Nic Russell on Resilience Through Heartbreak and Health Battles
Nic Russell lost her young daughter Kenzie to bone cancer and has battled breast cancer, heart transplant complications, and Parkinson's disease.