Listening In The Silence, Seeing In The Dark: Reconstructing Life After Brain Injury
by Ruthann Knechel Johansen /
2002 / English / PDF
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A teacher of literature and narrative theory at the University of Notre Dame, Johansen (The Narrative Secret of Flannery O'Connor) uses her literary skill to tell the story of her 15-year-old son Erik's recovery from traumatic brain injury after a car accident. Not knowing at first whether Erik would live or die, family members found themselves trying to understand and communicate with the medical world.
