Can I read A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning on EtoBox?

A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning by Ehrlich, Gretel is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning about?

"Before electricity carved its blue path toward me, before the negative charge shot down from cloud to ground...before air expanded and contracted producing loud pressure pulses I could not hear because I was already dead, I had been walking." So opens Gretel Ehrlich's absorbing account of being struck by lightning. Only when she fell to the ground, her head and body hitting on rock, was she jolted back to consciousness, back to life. In this astonishing chronicle of her experience and of the physical, psychological, and spiritual consequences of the encounter, the author turns her acute naturalist's eye on herself and on the natural world of the body to understand exactly what happened when lightning struck her. Woven into the narrative of her recovery is an examination of the heart - medical, religious, and cultural: There is the path of healing that she traveled not only with the requisite cardiologist but, to quite amazing effect, with her dogs as well. And finally, there is water, and the ways in which, in its contemplation and its immersion, she learned how fire can be extinguished. A Match to the Heart is a stunning work of observation and synthesis: bringing together the mo

Author

Ehrlich, Gretel

Publisher

New York: Pantheon Books

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679425502

Subjects

Medical, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.91 / 5 (396 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13