Echoes of Heartsounds

This New York Times –bestselling author’s memoir of her own heart attack is “a refresher course in handling life’s meanest challenges with grace” ( Library Journal ). It begins late one afternoon in her kitchen. There is no collapse, no massive pain. Just a slight fluttering sensation in her chest, then chills, and finally, nausea. Probably nothing to worry about, the doctor assures her on the phone. It doesn’t sound like a heart attack. But it is. Heart attacks in women can look and feel dramat