num_pages: 244
description: In December 1988 Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable balance and confronted by wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers. Skloot also explores the gradual reassembling of himself, putting together his scattered memories, rediscovering the meaning of childhood and family history, and learning a new way to be at home in the world. Combining the author’s skills as a poet and novelist, this book finds humor, meaning, and hope in the story of a fragmented life made whole by love and the courage to thrive.
language: English
title: In the Shadow of Memory
titlecomplete: In the Shadow of Memory
genres: Medicine, Biography, Poetry, Memoir, Nonfiction, Health, Essays, Biography Memoir, Medical, Disability
ratings_count: 143
series: American Lives
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Creative Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay 
publisher: Bison Books