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SUMMARY:Book Event/ Reading & Conversation: JOE MANGANIELLO "Bloodlines"
DESCRIPTION:***Tickets are required to attend this event. Each ticket inclu
 des a SIGNED HARDCOVER of Bloodlines. We will have additional copies of Bl
 oodlines for purchase. Books will be pre-signed\; there will not be a sign
 ing line following the talk.***\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\nIn this gripping memoir
 \, actor Joe Manganiello\, star of True Blood and Magic Mike\, reveals the
  previously undisclosed health ordeal—marked by multiple near-death expe
 riences and medical crises—that led him beyond medicine and into a remar
 kable\, globe-spanning quest that revealed answers about his ancestry\, in
 herited trauma\, and the deeper histories we carry.\n\nJoe Manganiello see
 med to have it all: a soaring career\, a new marriage\, and what many cons
 idered\, 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 amputa
 tion\, existential crisis\, and a prolonged fight for survival that left d
 octors with few answers and no clear explanation.\n\nAs Manganiello strugg
 led to stay alive amidst medicine’s inability to fully explain what aile
 d him\, an unorthodox path emerged—shamans\, pagan rituals\, ancient myt
 hs\, 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 Arm
 enian genocide\, to ancestors shaped by violence and displacement\, and th
 e hidden patterns shared by others living with chronic illness.\n\nIn Bloo
 dlines\, 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.\n\nDeeply personal and emotionally expansive\, Bloodli
 nes 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-turni
 ng\, heart-pounding book for the ages and an essential meditation on inher
 itance\, loss\, and the work of living with what remains.
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