EPISODE · Dec 18, 2018 · 30 MIN
Struck: A Husband’s Memoir of Trauma and Triumph by Douglas Segal
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/365098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Struck: A Husband’s Memoir of Trauma and Triumph Author: Douglas Segal Narrator: Douglas Segal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 18, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: One of life's biggest clichés becomes a horrific reality when Douglas Segal's wife and young daughter are hit head-on by a Los Angeles city bus. Miraculously, his daughter was unharmed, but his wife faced a series of life-threatening injuries, including the same one that famously left Christopher Reeve paralyzed. Following the accident, Segal began sending regular email updates to their circle of friends and family—a list that continued to grow as others heard of the event and were moved by the many emotional and spiritual issues it raised. Segal's compelling memoir is an intimate and honest chronicle built around these email updates, and is a profound example of how people show up for one another in times of crisis. Alternatingly harrowing, humorous, heartbreaking, and hopeful, this is an uplifting tribute to love, determination, and how the compassion of community holds the power to heal, serving as an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit when faced with pain and adversity.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/365098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Struck: A Husband’s Memoir of Trauma and Triumph Author: Douglas Segal Narrator: Douglas Segal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 18, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: One of life's biggest clichés becomes a horrific reality when Douglas Segal's wife and young daughter are hit head-on by a Los Angeles city bus. Miraculously, his daughter was unharmed, but his wife faced a series of life-threatening injuries, including the same one that famously left Christopher Reeve paralyzed. Following the accident, Segal began sending regular email updates to their circle of friends and family—a list that continued to grow as others heard of the event and were moved by the many emotional and spiritual issues it raised. Segal's compelling memoir is an intimate and honest chronicle built around these email updates, and is a profound example of how people show up for one another in times of crisis. Alternatingly harrowing, humorous, heartbreaking, and hopeful, this is an uplifting tribute to love, determination, and how the compassion of community holds the power to heal, serving as an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit when faced with pain and adversity.
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