by Lu Spinney
This important and riveting
memoir recounts
the devastating injury sustained by the author’s son, Miles, a handsome,
bright, and adventurous 29-year-old who crashed while snowboarding in the Alps.
About her book, the
author writes, “there is a strange contradiction in writing about a private
experience and making it public. I’ve just written a book about a subject that
for five years I not only avoided but found bitterly painful to talk about. To
discuss my son Miles’s situation with anybody other than family or closest
friends felt like a betrayal of his privacy; it was too intensely private to
share. And now I’ve written a book about it.
The book reflects on traumatic brain injury, minimal
conscious states, long-term care, quality of life, the effects on the family of
the injured person and much more. It
will be valuable reading for any health care worker and others interested in
these issues.
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