All Better Now

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Description

An honest and captivating memoir of the writer’s childhood struggles on account of a brain tumor, only discovered following a near-fatal car accident.
 
All her life, Emily has felt different from other kids. Between therapist visits, sudden uncontrollable bursts of anger, and unexplained episodes of dizziness and loss of coordination, things have all the time felt not right. For years, her only escape used to be through the stories she’d craft about herself and the world around her. But it isn’t until a near-fatal accident when she’s twelve years old that Emily and her family discover the truth: a grapefruit sized benign brain tumor at the base of her skull.
               
In turns candid, angry, and beautiful, Emily Wing Smith’s riveting memoir chronicles her struggles with both mental and physical disabilities all through her childhood, the devastating accident that may have saved her life, and the means by which she coped with it all: writing.

“This implausible journey from an awkward childhood struggle through a brain tumor and near-fatal accident to published author is heart-wrenching and inspiring. A should-read, especially for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.”—James Dashner, #1 bestselling writer of the The Maze Runner series

An unusual memoir about her life on the outside and how she found her way in.” —Booklist

“Smith unapologetically and honestly delivers the entire messy details of her hard-won life and, without striving for sympathy, draws readers firmly to her side to applaud her developing successes.” —Publishers Weekly



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