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Wondering Who You Are : a Memoir by Sonya Lea is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Wondering Who You Are : a Memoir about?
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. In the twenty-third year of their marriage, Sonya Lea's 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 past--her drinking, his anger. Richard could now hardly speak, emote, or create memories from moment to moment. Who he'd been no longer was. Wondering Who You Are braids the story of Sonya and Richard's relationship, those memories that he could no longer conjure, together with his fateful days in the hospital--the internal bleeding, the near-death experience, and eventual traumatic brain injury. It ..
Who reads Wondering Who You Are : a Memoir?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sonya Lea
- Publisher
- Portland, Oregon: Tin House Books
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781941040072
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (366 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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