Everything Is a Little Broken

Rebecca Sugar

Apr 2024 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Sarah Welborn

About this audiobook

Aging is hard, but watching those you love get older isn't much easier. Everything Is a Little Broken invites listeners to both laugh and cry at some of the painful, heart-wrenching and absurd moments Mira Cayne and her father, Matt Frank, experience as age and infirmity begin to take their toll. Their story will be instantly recognizable to the 41 million Americans caring for older adults in their lives. Matt has always been Mira's hero and her rock, but he isn't bouncing back easily from his second spinal cord surgery at the age of 79. As he grows increasingly fragile, Mira looks for ways to revive his spirit, and her own. Luckily, her father is still impossibly stubborn, and can take a good wheelchair joke. Laughing at what life is doing to his dignity seems to be the only medicine with any healing power, for both father and daughter. Faced with nothing but time during the COVID-19 lockdown, Rebecca Sugar chose the vehicle of fiction in order to express universal truths about the challenges she was facing with her own father. Together they have laughed about everything from neuropathy to nurses to hearing aids. It helps to remember that everything is a little broken.

About the author

Rebecca Sugar is a writer whose column, The Cocktail Party Contrarian, appears in the New York Sun every other Friday. Her work has also been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, USA Today, Spectator USA, Jewish News Syndicate, the Christian Post, the Jewish Journal, and more.

Sarah Welborn has been acting for the past twenty-five years, and her credits include theatrical and film productions in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Las Vegas. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.