Bibliograph

All Better Now, My Life As The Thank-God-She-Got-Hit-By-A-Car Girl, Emily Wing Smith

Type

Label

All Better Now, My Life As The Thank-God-She-Got-Hit-By-A-Car Girl, Emily Wing Smith

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

7 years and up

Literary Form

unknown

Main title

All Better Now

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

946531435

Responsibility statement

Emily Wing Smith

Sub title

My Life As The Thank-God-She-Got-Hit-By-A-Car Girl

Summary

I ask myself: how am I living still' And how I ask it depends on the day. 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 always felt not right. For years, her only escape was 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 captivating memoir chronicles her struggles with both mental and physical disabilities during her childhood, the devastating accident that may have saved her life, and the means by which she coped with it all: writing

Target audience

primary

Classification