Pieces you'll never get back : a memoir of unlikely survival
(2025)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/ALI,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Catapult, 2025
EDITION
First Catapult edition
DESCRIPTION
263 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781646222612, 164622261X :, 164622261X, 9781646222612
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
At 29, as a young writer working on her first novel, Samina Ali nearly died giving birth to her son. Miraculously, she survived the unchecked eclampsia that had endangered her pregnancy, instead sustaining major brain injury and falling into a coma as she gave birth. When she woke up, only her deepest memories were intact. Her husband was a stranger to her, she didn't remember having a baby, and any language other than her native Urdu was foreign. Medical consensus was she would never recover--much less write--again