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    Louise: Amended: A Memoir
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    Louise: Amended: A Memoir

    By Louise Krug

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    The “inspirational” true story of a glamorous young life upended—and transformed—by a sudden brain trauma (Sacramento Bee).
     
    A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
     
    “Having just graduated from college, Krug and her dreamy French boyfriend, Claude, leave the flatlands of Kansas for Santa Barbara, California—there, Krug finds a reporting job covering high society ‘gardens, weddings, and pets,’ and Claude gets a gig with a local paper. Young, in love, gainfully employed, and living close to the coast, post-collegiate life couldn’t be better—day after day ‘[t]hey drink Mexican beer and wear bathing suits indoors. They do drugs and wander through organic markets, spotting celebrities.’ But just weeks after settling in, Krug suffers a ‘severe’ cavernous angioma in her brain. She gets dizzy, she can’t walk, and it soon becomes clear that brain surgery is inevitable, and life will never be the same. In gracefully stark prose, Krug narrates in the third person the implosion of what should’ve been her gilded life, the sad and prolonged dissolution of her relationship with Claude, and her transformation from ‘the kind of girl other girls only pretended to like’ to a wife, mother, and PhD candidate back in Kansas. Interspersed throughout are fictional imaginings of the perspectives of her loved ones as she endures numerous surgeries and years of physically and emotionally excruciating rehab . . . an immediate, unsparing, and beautifully rendered account of loss and recovery.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
     
    “A massive brain trauma robbed fashionable young Louise of the shallow currency she’d banked on all her life . . . a page-turner in which a person’s very soul deepens before your eyes.” —Mary Karr
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 24, 2012
    ISBN9781936787043
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    • 5/5
              I won this thru Library Thing and I thought it was an amazing book. It is about Louise Krug who goes thru a life changing event in which her health never fully recovered. The book also goes into detail about her family and how it affected them.
    • 3/5
      It was an interesting story although the jumping of perspectives was a bit off putting. The style I found to be alright, a bit slowish. I was able to read the story andi may recommend it to a few friends.
    • 3/5
      Quick, easy read. Perceptions of recovery not only from victim but also those around her. Food for thought - what if it happened to me?
    • 1/5
      This author's style of writing could not hold my attention.