Author:Martha Long
Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the heart or the strength to go on.
As she teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown, a phone call summons ghosts from the past. She discovers that one of the family is dead and the others need her help. Martha returns and when she comes face to face with the evil, psychotic Jackser, she can no longer suppress the nightmares of her childhood.
A suicide attempt sees her admitted to the 'mad house', where a hunger strike takes her even nearer to death. But finally she sees a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. Could love in an unexpected form pull her back from the brink?
Blunt, moving and laugh-out-loud funny
—— Irish WorldA fresh, strange, and wonderful new voice in American nature writing
—— Michael PollanI think the only way I could possibly have enjoyed this more is if I happened to be an adventurous twelve-year-old boy, but still, even for a fully domesticated forty-year-old woman, it was both a thrill and an education
—— Elizabeth GilbertI wolfed it down
—— Will Self on The Red HourglassFirst-rate, unsentimental writing about nature and about the ways that human beings try to cope with the most terrible cruelties that nature offers up
—— The New York TimesElegant and wryly funny
—— EsquireSelf Comes to Mind is often an exhilarating read. Not unlike Carl Sagan, Damasio is clearly excited by the findings he describes, and the thrill of discovery shines through his fine, clear prose
—— Tom JacobsI was totally captivated by Self Comes to Mind.In this work Antonio Damasio presents his seminal discoveries in the field of neuroscience in the broader contexts of evolutionary biology and cultural development.This trailblazing book gives us a new way of thinking about ourselves, our history, and the importance of culture in shaping our common future
—— Yo-Yo Ma, MusicianDamasio makes a grand transition from higher-brain views of emotions to deeply evolutionary, lower-brain contributions to emotional, sensory and homeostatic experiences. He affirms that the roots of consciousness are affective and shared by our fellow animals. Damasio's creative vision leads relentlessly toward a natural understanding of the very font of being
—— Jaak Panksepp, author of Affective NeuroscienceLucid, elegantly written, and punctuated by humour... This is an exciting book by a wonderful thinker
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