She Danced with Lightning, Marc Palmieri
She Danced with Lightning, Marc Palmieri
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She Danced with Lightning
My Daughter's Struggle with Epilepsy and Her Boundless Will to Live

Author: Marc Palmieri

Narrator: Marc Palmieri

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/09/2022

Synopsis

Part family memoir, part medical mystery involving severe epilepsy, She Danced with Lightning follows one girl's battle to persevere as a competitive dancer, culminating in a terrifying decline, a courageous performance, and an eleventh hour, life-saving brain surgery.

Eleven-year-old Anna has lived all her life with severe epilepsy. Despite the ravage of thousands of violent seizures and heavy medications, she has thrived at school, athletics, and her greatest passion—dance. As she approaches her twelfth birthday, Anna's condition takes a dire turn. Her health declines quickly and a new diagnosis is revealed, leaving the family only one excruciating choice. A parent's memoir about the medical mysteries of epilepsy and the personal suffering of raising a child with a deadly health condition, She Danced with Lightning is told from the perspective of Anna's dream-chasing father, who comes to learn from her a strength and courage he never imagined possible.

About Marc Palmieri

Marc Palmieri is a playwright, actor, screenwriter, baseball coach, and college professor. His plays include Waiting For the Host, The Groundling, Carl the Second, and the New York Times Critic's Pick Levittown. His screenplays include Miramax's Telling You. He has published short fiction in Fiction, and short memoir in Global City Review and (Re) An Ideas Journal. Marc has appeared in many national television commercials, soap operas, and stage productions. He played baseball for Wake Forest University and was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays, and continues to coach at the high school level. Marc is an assistant professor at Mercy College's School of Liberal Arts in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He has also taught for a decade at The City College of New York's MFA program in creative writing. Marc lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nick

A grad school pal from my ’03-’04 CCNY days is having a fantastic time doing a bit of a book tour. As an actor and college instructor, he is perfectly suited to engage and teach the public about his experiences caring for someone with a severe illness. And he’s a hell of a writer, too. She Danced wi......more

Goodreads review by Stuart

Anna Palmieri was only five months old when she began to suffer seizures. As she got older, her parents, Marc and Kristen, became all too aware that at any moment of the typical school day a call might come in, informing them that something had happened to their little girl in class. They took her t......more

Goodreads review by Gregory

I pick up the book a little after 11pm thinking I’ll just read one chapter & then it’s 1:48am & I’m finishing the book in tears & just want to hug this entire family. Yes it’s a story of a young girl dealing with epilepsy on a daily basis. Yes it’s a memoir of a family coping on this journey. But it......more

Goodreads review by Claire

An emotional and gripping story. Marc is a talented storyteller, and I’m grateful he has shared their journey with the world. As a mum of a child living with epilepsy, and an author myself, I was very much looking forward to reading She Danced with Lightning (also, brilliant title!). This story is ve......more

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