{"product_id":"bloodlines-a-memoir-by-joe-manganiello","title":"Bloodlines: A Memoir by Joe Manganiello","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this gripping memoir, actor Joe Manganiello, star of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrue Blood\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagic Mike\u003c\/i\u003e, reveals the previously undisclosed health ordeal--marked by multiple near-death experiences and medical crises--that led him beyond medicine and into a remarkable, globe-spanning quest that revealed answers about his ancestry, inherited trauma, and the deeper histories we carry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoe Manganiello seemed to have it all: a soaring career, a new marriage, and what many considered, the best physique in Hollywood. Then, without warning, his body began to fail him. A cascade of autoimmune-related illnesses attacked his skin, thyroid, eyes, lungs, and digestive system, plunging him into a seven-year battle, plagued by chronic pain, a life-saving organ amputation, existential crisis, and a prolonged fight for survival that left doctors with few answers and no clear explanation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Manganiello struggled to stay alive amidst medicine's inability to fully explain what ailed him, an unorthodox path emerged--shamans, pagan rituals, ancient myths, long lost family records, and the rebirth of his own spirituality. A search that led him deep into his own bloodline: to a survivor of the Armenian genocide, to ancestors shaped by violence and displacement, and the hidden patterns shared by others living with chronic illness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloodlines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Manganiello writes with candor and hard-won clarity about illness, masculinity, faith, ambition, and the identities we build to endure. More than a memoir of medical crisis, it is a searching account of what happens when the life you have constructed can no longer contain the truth of what you carry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeeply personal and emotionally expansive, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloodlines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e considers how the past lives on in the body and in the stories we tell about strength, survival, and selfhood. The result is both a page-turning, heart-pounding book for the ages and an essential meditation on inheritance, loss, and the work of living with what remains.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":57583947743398,"sku":"9781668207109","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/4637\/7638\/files\/81e61rTxkHL._SY466.jpg?v=1791387352","url":"https:\/\/woollybearbooks.com\/products\/bloodlines-a-memoir-by-joe-manganiello","provider":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}