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I Forgot to Remember : a Memoir of Amnesia by Su Meck; Daniel De Visé is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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For fans of Susannah Cahalan’s , the courageous memoir of a woman robbed of all her memories by a traumatic brain injury—and her more than twenty-five-year struggle to reclaim her life. In 1988 Su Meck was twenty-two and married with two children when a ceiling fan in her kitchen fell and struck her on the head, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury that erased all her memories of her life up to that point. Although her body healed rapidly, her memories never returned. Yet after just three weeks in the hospital, Su was released and once again charged with the care of two toddlers and a busy household. Adrift in a world about which she understood almost nothing, Su became an adept mimic, gradually creating routines and rituals that sheltered her and her family, however narrowly, from the near-daily threat of disaster—or so she thought. Though Su would eventually relearn to tie her shoes, cook a meal, and read and write, nearly twenty years would pass before a series of personally devastating events shattered the “normal” life she had worked so hard to build, and she realized that she would have to grow up all over again. In her own indelible voice, Su offers us a view from the i
Who reads I Forgot to Remember : a Memoir of Amnesia?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Su Meck; Daniel De Visé
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Limited
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781451685817
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.46 / 5 (1,132 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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