Wherever You Are: A Memoir of Love, Marriage, and Brain Injury
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Descrizione dell’editore
Cynthia Lim thought she had the perfect life: a husband who was a successful attorney, a fulfilling career in education, two teenage sons in private school, and a home in Los Angeles rich in books, music, and art. Then in 2003, her husband Perry suffers a cardiac arrest and brain injury, lingering in a coma for ten days before slowly awakening. A different person emerges, one who has lost his short-term memory and is fully dependent on others. Married for twenty years, she doesn't know how much of his former self will return as she fights for the treatment and care he needs.
She struggles with caregiving and working full-time while finding connection with the man she once knew and loved, whose brain will never again function as it did before. While wrestling with the urge to leave him in an institution and walk away, she discovers the strength and resolve that will allow her to build a new life. Wherever You Are is the story of a marriage after a spouse is forever changed by a catastrophic event. It is a story of redefining life with disability and discovering the real truth of love and marriage.
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Serafim's gripping fourth Greek Islands mystery (after 2017's From the Devil's Farm) finds Melissa Costas, the chief police officer on the island of Spetses, facing her first murder investigation. American Hope Erickson, the wife of Thanasis Papadopoulos, has found her husband dead, his throat slashed with a broken wine bottle, in a cave near the home they share with Thanasis's family. Wanting to prove herself, Costas diligently interviews the family and gathers evidence. But her boss in Athens, Haralambos Stathis, wants the case closed quickly, with Hope's arrest. The teary-eyed American casts herself as a victim of police abuse, and soon videos of the woman being led away in handcuffs are trending on social media. Hoping to avoid an international incident, Stathis demotes Costas and sends in series lead Yiannis Patronas, the chief police officer on the island of Chios, who has a reputation for solving homicides. The tension builds as Patronas closes in on a deadly family secret. Serafim's firm grip on contemporary Greek culture enriches her characterization and lends veracity. Readers will hope to return to the islands soon.
