Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence

Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence
by Matthew Sanford

Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence
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Author: Matthew Sanford
Edition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-05-27
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Rodale Books

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Book Review: The insecurity of the weakest link
Summary: 4 Stars

Being at a lost with thoughts towards this book, this story is all consuming, like all the air being sucked out of a room. What else; an unrelenting assault, torturous hope, and seemly clarity. Reading stories of devastion is nothing new to me, but it is a rarity when a book can blow so many fuses in my fuse box of a heart. I gave the book 4 stars because I felt it was a conscious choice or not to tilt the balance of the book towards the silence (The dark) and as a reader I would have appreciated a little more levity. This is not a telling review I sense, because this is not a story of a Highway maintenance worker who hit the snooze button, it is uncut, undiluted, story of a person whose almost total control of life was lost and found. Some books linger for a few days, this one lingers months. Also read: Burned: A Memoir.

Summary of Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence

Matthew Sanford?s life and body were irrevocably changed at age 13 when his family?s car skidded off a snowy Iowa overpass, killing Matt?s father and sister and leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. This pivotal event set Matt on a lifelong journey, from his intensive care experiences at the Mayo Clinic to becoming a paralyzed yoga teacher and founder of a nonprofit organization. Forced to explore what it truly means to live in a body, he emerges with an entirely new view of being a "whole" person. In this searingly candid memoir he delivers a powerful message about the endurance of the human spirit and of the body that houses it.

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