MEET THE AUTHOR: HAYLEY ARCENEAUX
Join us as we welcome HAYLEY ARCENEAUX on Saturday, September 10 at 2:00 PM to celebrate the release of
WILD RIDE: A MEMOIR OF I.V. DRIPS AND ROCKET SHIPS
**Line tickets are required to meet the author and are free with the purchase of WILD RIDE from Novel, on sale September 6. Line tickets will have a Group Letter on them. After the author has finished speaking, we will line up Groups A and B. If you have a line ticket with Group C or later, feel free to browse the store while you wait for your letter to be called.**
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The youngest American to ever orbit the earth—cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux—shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, extraordinary things can happen.
Once upon a time, there was a girl who rode a Dragon to the stars . . .
Thus begins the remarkable true story of Hayley Arceneaux, the youngest American to orbit the earth.
In this boldly optimistic debut memoir, Hayley Arceneaux details how she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to grab hold of a life greater than she’d ever imagined. With her signature upbeat messaging, Arceneaux recounts her odyssey, from her cancer diagnosis at age ten and the yearlong treatment that inspired her goal of working with pediatric cancer patients, to living through her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis, to getting her lifelong dream job at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as a physician assistant. She was sure she’d finally attained the life she wanted, and then the amazing and unimaginable happened: She was invited to go to space as a St. Jude ambassador.
Throughout the book, Arceneaux encourages readers to fight for the life they want, saying, You have to hold on, because you don’t know what great thing can come and change your life. Take the chance and you will feel, and learn, and grow, and become even more you. Following your dreams can take you to dreams you didn’t know you had.
Arceneaux’s uplifting story is the inspiration we all need today. She offers wisdom and lessons in courage to anyone fighting against the odds. And through it all, she reveals how resilience and faith can help us grab hold of the life we’ve always wanted and live it to the fullest.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Hayley Arceneaux is a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital physician assistant, a career she committed to at age ten, after surviving pediatric bone cancer. At age twenty-nine, she joined SpaceX’s first private spaceflight, Inspiration4, which launched on September 15, 2021, and successfully water-landed three days later, making her the youngest American to orbit the earth, the first pediatric cancer survivor in space, and the first astronaut with a prosthetic body part.