Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves and Art of Whitney Houston by Emily Lordi #joyce someone must be left behind

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Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves and Art of Whitney Houston by Emily Lordi #joyce someone must be left behindDATE OF RELEASE: 1 OCT 2026 She was The Voice, and then she was a tragedy. Or so the story goes. Since her death in 2012, the life of Whitney Houston has been shaped by the popular imagination into a simplistic tale of angelic rise and pitiable fall. But as Emily Lordi argues in this magisterial new biography, such an assumption fails to convey just how hard Whitney worked to become herself, to share her gifts at the height of her powers and to