3.5
I Am, I Am, I Am
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In this astonishing memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet shares the seventeen near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life.
The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life’s myriad dangers.
Here, O’Farrell stiches together these discrete encounters to tell the story of her entire life. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, she captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.
The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life’s myriad dangers.
Here, O’Farrell stiches together these discrete encounters to tell the story of her entire life. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, she captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.
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3.5
“I have yet to read a Maggie O’Farrell book that hasn’t consumed me. Her manner of telling, building a story is a gift to us. This book was somehow more visceral as it is her story. A nonfiction book that begins when she is 18, off on her own. Post schooling and working and living apart from her family. It begins the day she almost died.
I felt like I had such an appreciation for the strengths and weaknesses of the UK medical system after back to back reading both this book and
Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt. In one I saw the perspective of the junior doctors and consultants and now, in reading this, the perspective of the patient, and of the mother of a patient.
God bless those that work in the medical field. And God bless great writers. Our lives are richer because of you.”
“An impactful book that touches on the undercurrent of our lives: death and loss. These reflections are tangible stories that are heartfelt, strong, and tender. A book I’m sure is more relatable to the average person than it might seem. This served as a solid reminder of both our fragility and our resilience.”About Maggie O'Farrell
MAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You’d Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.
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