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Make a Fist: A Life of Starting Over
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ISBN13: 9798181589193
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 14 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 14 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1981, I woke from a coma, looked at my right hand, and was given one simple instruction: make a fist. I've been making one ever since.
Mark Lilly's life has been a series of starting-overs most people wouldn't survive once: a catastrophic accident at the edge of adulthood, businesses built and lost, a marriage, a bankruptcy, and - at an age when most careers wind down - a one-way flight to China with two duffel bags and no plan B.
Mark Lilly's life has been a series of starting-overs most people wouldn't survive once: a catastrophic accident at the edge of adulthood, businesses built and lost, a marriage, a bankruptcy, and - at an age when most careers wind down - a one-way flight to China with two duffel bags and no plan B.
What followed was sixteen years across eight international schools in China and Vietnam: canal towns and megacities, classrooms full of students who changed him as much as he changed them, a pandemic that stranded him on the wrong side of the Pacific, and a love story that refused to follow the itinerary. It ends where every honest story ends - mid-reach, with the next chapter unwritten.
Told with a mathematician's eye for the facts and a survivor's refusal to flinch, Make a Fist is for anyone who has ever had to begin again: after the injury, after the loss, after fifty. It isn't a book about landing on your feet. It's a book about getting up.
Four decades. Two continents. One instruction worth keeping: make a fist, and reach.
Told with a mathematician's eye for the facts and a survivor's refusal to flinch, Make a Fist is for anyone who has ever had to begin again: after the injury, after the loss, after fifty. It isn't a book about landing on your feet. It's a book about getting up.
Four decades. Two continents. One instruction worth keeping: make a fist, and reach.
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