Linda Wolfe's MY DAUGHTER/MYSELF is a wrenching, highly personal
and deeply moving story of a family in crisis and a compelling
testament to the powerful and universal bonds of the
mother/daughter relationship. By turns a medical mystery and a
family drama, Wolfe's book chronicles her thirty-eight-year-old
daughter's out-of-the-blue, near-fatal stroke, and the fascinating
process of physical and mental rehabilitation that allowed her
daughter to make an astonishing recovery. With the same eye for
detail and psychological astuteness that marked her many cover
stories for New York Magazine, Wolfe makes vivid every agonizing
moment, from the disastrous mistakes of some doctors and the
miraculous intercessions of others, to the terrors that haunt the
children of an illness-stricken parent, to the painful, inevitable
- and sometimes funny - disputes that arise when a mother-in-law
and son-in-law must share the same roof, and the innumerable
struggles and difficult choices that face the young stroke
survivor. Beautifully written and observed, MY DAUGHTER/MYSELF is
an inspiring account of how a mother learns to take life's blows as
they come, to master the unfamiliar language of illness and,
ultimately, to let her daughter be her guide as, together, they
march through an altogether new terrain. The Author: Linda Wolfe, a
longtime contributing editor at New York magazine, is an
award-winning journalist and novelist. Among her many books are the
novel "Private Practices," the nonfiction books "Wasted: The
Preppie Murder" and "The Murder of Dr. Chapman," and the culinary
classic "The Literary Gourmet." Learn more at LindaWolfe.com. Linda
Wolfe s harrowing and moving account of her family s crisis is an
intensely personal and universal testament to the mother/daughter
bond. Hilma Wolitzer, author of "An Available Man" Linda Wolfe is a
superb journalist and a fine novelist and critic, but she has
surpassed herself with this eloquent and gripping memoir about her
daughter s near brush with death. A must read I could not put it
down. Patricia Bosworth, author of "Anything Your Little Heart
Desires: An American Family Story" Even during the scariest, most
heart-stopping passages, it s a pleasure to read Linda Wolfe s
triumphant story of a precious daughter s stroke and recovery. Alix
Kates Shulman, author of "To Love What Is" Engrossing. Moving.
Powerful. This account of a daughter s debilitating stroke and
arduous recovery comes from a place of intense fear and
helplessness, and by looking as much inward as outward, Wolfe tells
an utterly human story of unexpected resilience: her own and her
daughter s. Ron Franscell, author of "The Sourtoe Cocktail Club"
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