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A Brooklyn medium’s journey — from mob streets to messages from beyond. Wide Open is Kevin DeMaria’s memoir of a childhood in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn — and the extraordinary gift he never asked for. Growing up surrounded by mob culture was dramatic enough; but DeMaria survived not one but several near-death experiences, each one opening him up to something beyond the ordinary.
He began hearing voices — the voices of the dead. What started as a frightened kid trying to make sense of the impossible slowly became his calling: Kevin DeMaria the medium. Written with humor, heart, and a Brooklyn storyteller’s edge, this traces his journey from a rough neighborhood upbringing through brushes with the Mafia to his emergence as one of the most sought-after mediums of his generation.
A book about grief, second chances, and learning to trust a gift DeMaria’s Brooklyn voice — funny, profane, tender — makes even skeptics keep reading. most people would run from.
Wide Open: My Story Starts Here is Kevin DeMaria’s memoir of a childhood in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn — and the extraordinary gift he never asked for.
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Growing up surrounded by mob culture on the streets of New York was dramatic enough. But DeMaria survived not one but several near-death experiences, and each one opened him up a little more to something beyond the ordinary. He began hearing voices — the voices of the dead. What started as a frightened kid trying to make sense of the impossible slowly became his calling: Kevin DeMaria the medium.
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Written with humor, heart, and a Brooklyn storyteller’s edge, Wide Open traces his journey from a rough neighborhood upbringing through brushes with the Mafia to his emergence as one of the most sought-after mediums of his generation. It’s a book about grief, second chances, and learning to trust a gift that most people would run from.
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The first volume in the Accidental Medium series, Wide Open is an ideal introduction for anyone curious about life after death — or simply drawn to a true story stranger than fiction.
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