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Harcourt
September 2006
On Sale: September 5, 2006
192 pages
ISBN: 0151012113
EAN: 9780151012114
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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
institution. 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. It is also about her relationship
with Rich, a man who lives in the eternal present, and the
eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise,
plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail
discovered in the five years since the accident: You might
not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort,
make something useful of it.
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