Wondering Who You Are: A Memoir [Paperback]

In the twenty-third year of their marriage, Sonya Leas husband, Richard, went in for surgery to treat a rare appendix cancer. When he came out, he had no recollection of their life together: how they met, their wedding day, the births of their two children. All of it was gone, along with the rockier parts of their pasther drinking, his anger. Richard could now hardly speak, emote, or create memories from moment to moment. Who hed been no longer was.Her stunning account of his recovery efforts and her willful refusal to give up on marriage to the stranger occupying her husbands body is fantastically heartfelt and inspiring.With poetic prose and remarkable candor, lea shares the details of helping her husband regain a sense of purpose...and her own difficult transition.An engrossing journey of self-discovery and fierce devotion.Sonya?Lea tells her extraordinary story extraordinarily well. She has a rare ability to bring readers to the places where love and sex intermingle, collide, or go their separate ways.? [A] heartbreakingly honest memoir . . . will touch listeners with its compassion andgrace. Booklist,STARREDSonya Leas?A beautiful writer&In exploring her husband's traumatic brain injury and loss of memory, Sonya Lea has written a memoir that is both a powerful look at perseverance in the face of trauma and a surprising exploration into what lies beyond our fragile identities.