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  • Live Your Life

  • My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero
  • Written by: Amanda Kloots, Anna Kloots
  • Narrated by: Amanda Kloots
  • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (132 ratings)

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Live Your Life

Written by: Amanda Kloots, Anna Kloots
Narrated by: Amanda Kloots
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Performed by the author featuring original music by Nick Cordero.

Amanda Kloots bravely reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star, and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with COVID-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world.

In March 2020, Broadway star and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife, Amanda Kloots, believed to be a severe case of pneumonia. Entering the hospital, they had every reason to believe that Nick - a young father and otherwise healthy man - would return home. After an eventual diagnosis of COVID-19 that led to Nick’s being placed on a ventilator, Amanda took to documenting their journey on social media, showing the dangers COVID-19 posed to everyone, regardless of age. Her updates quickly captivated millions, inspiring people around the globe to dance each day to Nick’s song “Live Your Life” and offer positive thoughts and prayer. When he passed away after 95 grueling days in the ICU, the world grieved for Amanda, her infant son, Elvis, and the future COVID-19 had snatched away from them.

Live Your Life is the story of Nick and Amanda’s life together - of their beautiful relationship, of Nick’s dramatic fight for survival, of those sudden tragic months that permanently changed her world and ours - and of their interrupted future as a family. From the confusing early days of his illness to searching for signs of hope in every update from the doctors to the healing sound of Elvis’s laughter, Amanda details how she approached even the most devastating moments with the personal optimism and faith that have shaped her life. Written with her sister Anna Kloots, who was with her every step of this journey, Live Your Life explores how Amanda’s willingness to accept help from an entire community of people - friends, family, and even total strangers - played a vital role in enduring this hardship. In the process, she offers a touching meditation on how even the worst times have silver linings that deepen our connections to the world around us and to the people who matter most.

What emerges is an inspiring and unexpectedly uplifting message for life in the time of COVID, a vision of courage for anyone coping with overwhelming loss or the collective trauma of what the pandemic has taken from us. A poignant reflection on love, hope, motherhood, and the transformational power of music, Live Your Life is a love letter to Nick and a reminder that, sometimes, celebrating life today is the only path through tomorrow’s darkness.

©2021 Amanda Kloots and Anna Kloots (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
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Loved it

What a heartfelt story! Bravo Amanda and thanks for sharing your very personal story. I could not put this down.

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Such a sad story

Hearing Amanda tell the story was the best. Her emotion and heartfelt readings made me feel like I was living the nightmare along side her.
My deepest condolences to her and Elvis and the rest of the family!

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Family, faith and love

This book was so honest and well written you felt present in the suffering, the celebration of the small victories, the coming together for a common purpose and the desire for the best possible outcome. There are so many feels about this book it’s hard to put them into words. You can’t help but fall in love with everyone involved in the story. Definitely worth the read and have the tissues close by. Thank you for sharing your love story with us all!!

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Thanks for sharing your story

This audio recording was excellent. I laughed and cried as I listened to Amanda’s story. Well worth the time to listen.

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