When Abigail Thomas’s husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life.
How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude.This wise, plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the acci-dent: You might not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort, make something useful of it.
“The startling power and beauty of Abigail Thomas’s memoir comes not only from her acute perceptions of a man without memories and her fear of losing her husband but from her refusal to surrender the shards of a loving relationship.”–O, the Oprah Magazine
Author: Abigail Thomas
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/10/2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780156033237
Language: English
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