Jonathan Raban

"A poignant memoir of recovery and reflection after a life-changing stroke, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"-- June 2011. Just days before his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban was sitting down to dinner with his daughter when he found he couldn't move his knife to his plate. Later that night, at the hospital, doctors confirmed he had suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke, paralyzing the right side of his body. Once he became...