Reader Testimonials

Maky Zanganeh's The Magic of Normal is an extraordinary exploration of what it means to lead a fulfilling life, both personally and professionally. This book is a breath of fresh air in a world obsessed with relentless achievement and material success.

Talk about resilience. This book was so important in the telling of this author's story. It's incredible everything she went through and how even then, she did not lose her motivation to live and even managed to help others as well. It was really inspiring this.

The Magic of Normal by Maky Zanganeh is not just a beautifully written exploration of the ordinary; it's a transformative read for anyone in management or leadership. Zanganeh effortlessly captures the profound wisdom found in everyday moments, offering a refreshing perspective on how to lead with empathy, mindfulness, and authenticity.

Maky Zanganeh's The Magic of Normal is an inspiring and deeply insightful book that blends personal resilience with groundbreaking leadership lessons. Zanganeh's journey from war-torn Iran to becoming a biotech powerhouse is nothing short of remarkable. Her storytelling captivates, offering invaluable insights into perseverance, innovation, and embracing challenges.

This book is incredible and takes you through many individual stories that will touch your life in so many ways. Not only is the Magic of Normal, Hope, Love, and Beyond a unique memoire to enjoy and learn from, it is a book that you will keep by your side as a reference. It is a book you pick up when times seem tough, when you are looking for insights and advice, when you feel like you are struggling to move on from something that is challenging.

As we stumble back onto our feet in 2021, I believe it's ever important to familiarize ourselves with stories and people that we can connect and count on. There is still a strange feeling in the air. Not quite anticipation and not quite fear. It lives in the spaces between. The Magic of Normal and Zanganeh reinforces that life is moving and it inevitably has its plan for us. We move forward with it. We invent our survivals.

The Magic of Normal: Hope, Love, and Beyond by Maky Zanganeh is an eye-opening look at what it is like to go through cancer treatment while also balancing the chaotic world of work and life. Maky lived a whirlwind life of travel and huge deals and arrangements until the COVID pandemic brought it all to a halt.

I see that you have an incredible, interesting and proven history and have overcome many challenges along the way to create a reality for patients to feel the 'Magic of Normal'.

This book is an emotional and inspiring journey that reminds us how life's toughest moments can lead to incredible growth. Through deeply personal storytelling, the author shares her experiences with hardship and transformation, making it impossible not to reflect on your own life and what truly matters.

What makes The Magic of Normal so compelling is the balance between Maky's personal story and her work in the world of medical research. You get the sense that she has lived both sides of the struggle, with illness and with the drive to find solutions. Her story does not try to impress. It invites you in.

Dr. Maky Zanganeh does an amazing job of making the dark times she went through look almost like a win in her book "The Magic of Normal: Love, Hope, and Beyond." She gives an honest account of battling cancer and COVID that you can almost feel the determination and growth she was going through.

Part personal memoir and part entrepreneurial success story, The Magic of Normal by Maky Zanganeh is an inspiring and touching book of one woman's determination. When her highly successful business career is abruptly paused due to a cancer diagnosis, author Zanganeh has to stop and recalibrate her life and what is meaningful to her.

The Magic of Normal: Hope, Love, and Beyond by Dr. Maky Zanganeh is a deeply inspiring memoir that delves into resilience, transformation, and the healing power of community. Dr. Zanganeh, a biotech CEO and cancer survivor, chronicles her journey through personal and professional upheavals, navigating both a cancer diagnosis and the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

I was profoundly touched by this memoir. The remarkable journey of a woman who overcame great obstacles while being loyal to herself and her vision is explored in the unvarnished, real-life novel The Magic of Normal: Hope, Love, and Beyond. The author interweaves her experiences as a young girl in a war-torn nation and as a leader in the biotech industry in a way that is both universal and intimate.

The Magic of Normal Hope, Love, and Beyond by Maky Zanganeh is an inspiring memoir that shares the story of courageous women who have shown remarkable performance in the biotech industry. However, her life took a sudden turn when she was diagnosed with cancer at the most crucial time during the COVID-19 19 pandemic.

Through this book, the author narrates a journey full of transformation, love and hope. Dr. Maky Zanganeh is a famed biotech director, who in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic was diagnosed with cancer. This experience brought many reflections, her normal life moved in a hurry and with this disease she had to take a break to get treatment while meditating on her purpose in life.

Normal: Love, Hope, and Beyond is a narrative that entwines together the emotion-laden motifs of metamorphosis, resilience and ingenuity of this brave lady who came as close as possible into another world. Diagnosed with cancer just when the whole universe was reeling through the exigencies of the Covid-19 pandemic, her stepping into the realm of the cancer world felt as if her world had turned upside down.

I must share I am a fiction junkie, and usually read political or development nonfiction, not memoirs. I am very grateful to NetGalley, Forbes Books, and the author for giving me an opportunity to read and provide an honest review for The Magic of Normal by Doctor Maky Zanganeh; I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The Magic of Normal: Hope, Love, and Beyond by Dr. Maky Zanganeh is an inspiring memoir and self-help guide that offers a fresh perspective on resilience, transformation, and finding hope in everyday life.

The memoir is a real-life example of how adversities shape a human being into the best version of them. In narrating her life's story, especially focusing on cancer, as it affected herself and her family and the problems faced in her native country Iran, the author shows how strength and resilience are borne out of struggles.