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A poignant, life-affirming memoir describes how a vacation boating accident forever changed the lives of Cathy Crimmins and her husband, Alan, when Alan, a successful attorney, is severely injured, in a deep coma with brain damage, and reflects on what happened to the family after Alan woke up. 40,000 first printing.
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Cathy Crimmins has written several humor books, and her articles have appeared in <i>The Village Voice, Redbook, Parents' Digest, Success, Hysteria,</i> and <i>Glamour</i>, among other publications. She teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughter.
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ok that Cathy Crimmins never hoped to write: the story of how a tragic accident nearly destroyed her family; of how in a split second their lives were changed forever. <br><br>In 1996, Cathy Crimmins, her husband, Alan, and their daughter, Kelly, were on an idyllic lakeside holiday when a boating accident left Alan in a deep coma, with severe damage to the frontal lobes of his brain, the area that controls speech, memory, movement, and personality. <b>Where Is the Mango Princess?</b> is the story of what happened to Cathy and her family after Alan woke up.<br> <br>From the frustrations of dealing with doctors ("The first doctor, whom we call Dr. Asshole, swooped down from the great Neurosurgery in the Sky to tell me he has nothing to tell me") and insurance plans ("You know what our HMO's brain surgery plan is? They give your wife a Black & Decker drill and an instruction booklet") to the enigmas of personality, mortality, and modern science, <b>Where Is th
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