The night the lights went out
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The night the lights went out
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ISBN:
9780593232712
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xvii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
"A memoir of life after brain damage" -- Cover.
Contents:
Prologue: 1984 -- Christmas 2016 -- Collapse -- The witnesses -- Sitting in dread -- Craniotomy -- Spinal drip -- The vigil -- An investigation -- The fog -- Christmas 2018 -- Home -- The road to normal -- Deaf -- Miracle ear -- Welcome to the club -- Nosedive -- Smell therapy -- Sue you, sue everybody -- Voices in my head -- The implant -- Tasteless -- The robot ear -- The sound of sound -- Amnesia -- Therapy -- New York -- Christmas 2019 -- Epilogue.
Summary:
The fan-favorite Defector and former Deadspin columnist shares his long recovery from a catastrophic brain hemorrhage and how he learned to live with a broken mind as he tried to figure out who this new person is, in this fascinating, darkly funny comeback story.
On the night of the 2018 Deadspin Awards, Magary suffered a fall on a concrete floor; his skull cracked in three places and he suffered a catastrophic brain hemorrhage. Following a two-week coma, he began a long recovery, and needed to come to terms with now permanent disabilities. Trying to find some lesson in this cosmic accident, he leaned on the one sure thing that he knows and that didn't leave him: his writing. Here he takes a deep dive into what it meant to be a bystander to his own death. Magary became a new person: one that doesn't walk as well, doesn't taste or smell or see or hear as well, and is often failing as a husband and a father as he bounces between grumpiness, irritability, and existential fury. But what's a good comeback story without heartbreak? -- adapted from jacket
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