Being with Rachel: A Personal Story of Memory and Survival

by Karen Brennan

Book Overview

The call came at 6 A.M. Karen Brennan's twenty-five-year-old daughter, Rachel, had been in a motorcycle accident. She was in a coma. Her CAT scan, the neurosurgeon said, was very, very ugly. Instantly, Karen Brennan's life of comfortable dailiness becomes passionate necessary-ness. Cautioned that her daughter will not be the same person, Brennan waits and hopes through weeks of intensive care, months of coma, and Rachel's determined efforts to walk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039334004X
• ISBN13: 9780393340044
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"