03575cam a2200781 4500 545372464 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616201661 1616201665 B008NEZPKA Amazon fd565915-0a86-4ed8-ad8e-d0c0b88963cb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1204373 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rajamani, Ashok. The Day My Brain Exploded [Libby] : A True Story. Algonquin Books, 2013. Biography. racism. seizures. vulgar. immigrant. sexuality. swear words. disability. starting over. Neuroscience. prejudice. sexual orientation. Autobiography. trauma. brain injury. art. race. survivor. true story. illness. indian. discrimination. Social Issues. ethnicity. injury. India. memoir. epilepsy. Chicago. blindness. overcoming. speech pathology. Second Generation. First Generation. medical issues. Physical rehabilitation. AVM. brain bleed. alice in wonderland syndrome. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 694kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to relearn everything: how to eat, how to walk and to speak, even things as basic as his sexual orientation. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day (his brain exploded just before his brother's wedding!), as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the process, he introduces readers to his family—his principal support group, as well as a constant source of frustration and amazement. Irreverent, coruscating, angry, at times shocking, but always revelatory, his memoir takes the reader into unfamiliar territory, much like the experience Alice had when she fell down the rabbit hole. That he lived to tell the story is miraculous; that he tells it with such aplomb is simply remarkable.</p> <p>More than a decade later he has finally reestablished a productive artistic life for himself, still dealing with the effects of his injury—life-long half-blindness and epilepsy— but forging ahead as a survivor dedicated to helping others who have suffered a similar catastrophe.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FD565915-0A86-4ED8-AD8E-D0C0B88963CB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FD565915-0A86-4ED8-AD8E-D0C0B88963CB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FD565915-0A86-4ED8-AD8E-D0C0B88963CB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)