Fractured, Susan Mockler
Fractured, Susan Mockler
List: $23.99 | Sale: $16.79
Club: $11.99

Fractured
A Memoir

Author: Susan Mockler

Narrator: Dianne Aguilar

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 01/30/2023

Synopsis

A collision with a moose on a dark highway left Susan Mockler with an incomplete spinal injury, suddenly compromising her ability to walk and to care for herself. She spent months in a rehabilitation facility learning how to adjust to her new reality, and though her body partially recovered, every aspect of her life changed. Fractured is a compelling illumination of the challenges of acquired disability and the ways in which people with disabilities are sidelined and infantilised. Mockler, a psychotherapist, speaks with frank honesty about her family and friends’ reactions to her injury, and the hard-won lessons that she and those around her learned from her experience.

Reviews

Goodreads review by J.J. on November 23, 2022

A powerful memoir that has a lasting impact on a reader's worldview. Susan Mockler skillfully weaves a sophisticated narrative that brings us inside her struggle with a severe spinal cord injury, not just showing us her fight for mobility, acceptance and understanding, but allowing us to feel it in......more

Goodreads review by Pam on December 07, 2022

This well-written memoir describes the first several months of the author’s rehabilitation following a car collision with a moose. (Set in Canada)......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on June 12, 2023

What a wonderful read. Well, I should clarify: Susan Mockler's memoir Fractured, about her descent from an able-bodied person into a shattered world replete with hospitals, doctors, and all the uncertainty that that surreal world entails, is a compelling but difficult read. It's very well-written bu......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List