Return to Chewelah: A Story of Innocence and Loss

By Janet G. May

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964135752
• ISBN13: 9780964135758
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Storm Peak Pr
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Return to Chewelah

A fantastic true story of young love in Seattle, a diabling accident, courage and perseverance in her struggle to regain a normal life. I met this young woman in Chewelah shortly after her accident. She came to the ski area I managed in her wheelchair looking for a job, which was near impossible to imagine. Recently I discovered her book on a flight to South America and stayed up all night to finish it. Now I have reread it twice more and have traveled to Seattle to meet her. She is an amazing woman.

Review by local M.D.

"A tour to the pits of loss and chaos, a Christopher Reeve injury story with Woodstock players. Brutally frank, disturbingly explicit,more than you really want to know. Chewelah is the lone touchstone for some peace and a measure of healing and acceptance and remembrance of things past and longed for. Told from the heart with a sense of anger, frustration, hurt, resentment, some understanding and love." John Dawson M.D.- general surgeon

Brutally honest Memoir

"A Seattle woman pens a brutally honest memoir about her difficult recovery after a riding accident leaves her paralyzed, including criticisms about the rehab treatment she received" Seattle Post-Intelligencer

An inspiring story of personal integrity & recovery

I loved this book. Anyone who has ever appreciated the freedom of the country, or felt the captivity of quadriplegia or other diseases would love this book. Janet's brutal honesty & revealing nature was refreshing. It was one book that I had to read cover to cover without putting it down.