Wondering Who You Are

Name: Wondering Who You Are
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Sonya Lea
ISBN: 9781681412078

Author: Sonya Lea

Narrator: Sonya Lea

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 07/13/2015

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

In the twenty-third year of their marriage, Sonya Lea's husband, Richard, went in for surgery to treat a rare appendix cancer. When he came out, he had no recollection of their life together: how they met, their wedding day, the births of their two children. All of it was gone, along with the rockier parts of their past - her drinking, his anger. Richard could now hardly speak, emote, or create memories from moment to moment. Who he'd been no longer was. Wondering Who You Are braids the story of Sonya and Richard's relationship, thos memories that he could no longer conjure, together with his fateful days in the hospital, and through a marriage no longer grounded on decades of shared experience.

About Sonya Lea

Sonya Lea's essays and interviews have appeared in Salon, The Southern Review, Brevity, Cold Mountain Review, Tricycle, The Prentice Hall College Reader, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and excerpts from Wondering Who You Are have received an international memoir prize and an Artist Trust Award. Lea teaches writing at Hugo House in Seattle. She recently directed her first short film, Every Beautiful Thing. Originally from Kentucky, she currently lives in Seattle, Washington.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ylenia

DNF @ page 235 I'm sorry but I can't force myself to read this. That's the opposite of what reading should be. I wasn't very much into this when I started it & I guess the feeling never left me, because here I am, giving up when I can finally see the end. I feel like memoirs are supposed to make you......more

Goodreads review by Carol

Sonya Lea is a fabulous writer with an honest and subversive message, and Wondering Who I Am is a great read. Lea’s command of the medical specialists, medical centers, tests, drugs etc of traumatic brain injury, some of which are further elaborated on in the Notes section, makes this also an inval......more

Goodreads review by Alyce (At Home With Books)

This book appealed to me because of the medical aspect of the story: her husband losing his memory due to a medical procedure. I have a weakness for medical memoirs, as well as for amnesia stories, so this appealed to me from the start. What I hadn't counted on, but was pleasantly surprised by, was......more

Goodreads review by Stacy

How brave and skilled do you have to be to write a book this good, this intimate, this honest, and this engaging? Very! The tale begins at the start of Lea’s romance with Richard when they were teens in Canada and goes through their marriage, childrearing, his illness his recovery, her recovery, and......more