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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: Jan 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
Retail Price: $16.99
Pages: 208
When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and di
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