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Title details for Unfinished Business by Lee Kravitz - Available

Unfinished Business

One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things

by Lee Kravitz
Kevin Foley
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After losing his job, Lee Kravitz, a workaholic in his midfifties, took stock of his life and realized just how disconnected he had become from the people who mattered most to him. He committed an entire year to reconnecting with them and making amends.


Kravitz takes listeners on ten transformational journeys, among them repaying a thirty-year-old debt, making a long-overdue condolence call, finding an abandoned relative, and fulfilling a forgotten promise. Along the way, we meet a cast of wonderful characters and travel the globe—to a refugee camp in Kenya, a monastery in California, the desert of southern Iran, a Little League game in upstate New York, and a bar in Kravitz's native Cleveland. In each instance, the act of reaching out opens new paths for both personal and spiritual growth.


All of us have unfinished business—the things we should have done but just let slip. Kravitz's story reveals that the things we've avoided are exactly those that have the power to transform, enrich, enlarge, and even complete us. The lesson of the book is one that is applicable to us all: Be mindful of what is most important, and act on it. The rewards will be immediate and lasting.

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  • Release date

    May 11, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400197248
      • File size: 209995 KB
      • Duration: 07:17:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      When Lee Kravitz was laid off from his position as a magazine editor, he decided to spend a year on a quest to complete what he called unfinished business--things he felt he should have done but hadn't. Over the course of the book we meet an older aunt who was once his favorite relative and is now institutionalized, a Little League teammate whose daughter was killed in Iraq on a humanitarian mission, a California monk, and others. In each episode, the author comes out the richer for it. Kevin Foley is solid as narrator, in essence becoming Kravitz. He tries to give each of the figures the author encounters a distinctive voice--with uneven success. While the stories will be compelling to many listeners, there is a sameness to the structure and lessons that may leave others a bit flat. R.C.G. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 13, 2010
      When Parade editor-in-chief Kravitz loses his job, he takes account of the many things he let slip in his quest to get to the top of the publishing world. He decides to take the next year to pursue all he's let pass: a reconciliation with a long-lost aunt; an exploration of spirituality; a payment of a 30-year-old debt; and other pursuits. In the process he learns a great deal about patience, humility, love, and family and reminds readers that the best time to do the things you say you're going to do is now. Kravitz is a thoughtful writer, and his memoir reveals a delicate personal journey, but many of his grand setups result in poor payoffs. While readers will be pleased that the author has made these valuable connections and has enriched his life, they may not connect sufficiently with him to be able to sympathize. His account is full of small, personal gestures, but their ultimate accumulation doesn't have much resonance.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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