The Light from a Thousand Wounds: A Mother's Memoir of Finding Beauty in Life's Darkest Moments
The Light from a Thousand Wounds: A Mother's Memoir of Finding Beauty in Life's Darkest Moments
In her poignant and unflinchingly raw memoir, this mother of five navigates the overwhelming challenges of raising a violently autistic child and grappling with her oldest son’s heartbreaking substance abuse. When a devastating rollover accident leaves her son in a coma, she and her husband are thrust into a foreign world of traumatic brain injuries and their child’s slow, uncertain recovery. The cumulative weight of one harrowing event after another threatens to destabilize their marriage and everything they cherish.