num_pages: 304
description: We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I Am I Am I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And most terrifying of all an ongoing daily struggle to protect her daughter--for whom this book was written--from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers.Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages in different locations reveal a whole life in a series of tense visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface and illuminates the preciousness beauty and mysteries of life itself.
language: English
title: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
publisher: Knopf