Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back From Brain Injury (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375704420)

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

Author: Cathy Crimmins
ISBN-10: 0375704426
ISBN-13: 9780375704420
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2001
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d