{"product_id":"9798898384456","title":"My Hard Life Lived Well: Volume 5","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome lives are too big for one book. This is the last chapter of one that took five.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMy Hard Life Lived Well, Volume 5\u003c\/i\u003e, Maria \"Mary\" Banfi Kardos closes out her remarkable memoir - from a communist farm village in Slovenia, through a refugee camp in Austria, to a hard-won American life built with her husband, Karl, and their five children in Willoughby Hills, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis final volume picks up in 1970, as a new baby daughter arrives and reawakens a family already stretched thin by teenage daughters, growing sons, and the relentless work of building something from nothing. Mary and Karl finally have the means - and the courage - to plan the trip of a lifetime: a return to the Europe they fled, and the family they left behind in Slovenia and Yugoslavia decades earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 1972 has one more test in store. Just as the family reaches its hard-earned \"good life,\" an unexpected and shocking event changes everything Mary thought she knew about her future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with unflinching honesty and deep faith, and co-written in her final years with her son after his own life-altering stroke, this volume is both a homecoming and a reckoning - a mother's last gift to the children and grandchildren who carry her story forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you've followed Mary's journey from Volume 1, this is the ending she earned. If you're meeting her for the first time, prepare to be moved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContinue the journey - read Volume 5 today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48219404337393,"sku":"9798898384456","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9798898384456_p0.jpg?v=1779820071","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9798898384456","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}