Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter Hendrickson John

An intimate, candid memoir about learning to live with--rather than overcome--a stutter.

In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Bidens decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching readers around the world and altering the course of Hendricksons life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain. He soon learned he wasnt alone with his feelings: strangers who stutter began sending him their own personal stories, something that continues to this day. Now, in this reported memoir, Hendrickson takes us deep inside the mind and heart of a stutterer as he sets out to answer lingering questions about himself and his condition that he was often too afraid to ask.

In Life on Delay, Hendrickson writes