Just Breathe Normally (American Lives)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: September 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780803210950
Subjects: Biography: general; True stories of endurance & survival; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Personal Memoirs; Alaska; Biography; Convalescence; Cycling accident victims; Psychological aspects; Reminiscing; Therapeutic use
Description: "In the wake of her near-fatal cycling collision, Peggy Shumaker searches for meaning within extremity. Through a long convalescence, she reevaluates her family's past, treating us to a meditation on the meaning of justice and the role of love in the grueling process of healing. Her book, a moving memoir of childhood and family, testifies to the power of collective empathy in the transformations that make and remake us throughout our lives." "We all live with injury and loss. This book transforms injury, transforms loss.