Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back From Brain Injury - Softcover

Crimmins, Cathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375704426 ISBN 13: 9780375704420

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

Humorist Cathy Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of the effects of traumatic brain injury, not only on the victim, in this case her husband, but on the family.

When her husband Alan is injured in a speedboat accident, Cathy Crimmins reluctantly assumes the role of caregiver and learns to cope with the person he has become. No longer the man who loved obscure Japanese cinema and wry humor, Crimmins' husband has emerged from the accident a childlike and unpredictable replica of his former self with a short attention span and a penchant for inane cartoons. Where Is the Mango Princess? is a breathtaking account that explores the very nature of personality-and the complexities of the heart.

Outstanding Book Award Winner from the American Society of Journalists and Authors

About this title

Product Description:

Where is the Mango Princess? Humorist Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of the effects of traumatic brain injury, not only on the victim, in this case her husband, but on the family. Full description

Review:

"[S]imply amazing. [An] astonishing alchemical story of tragedy and recovery."
--Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies

"A portrait of family tragedy all the more poignant for mixing humor with blazing honesty."
--Elle

"Transcends the subject of illness to become an inspiring meditation on the enduring nature of love."
--Us Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375704426
• ISBN 13: 9780375704420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272