I Forgot to Remember (Meck)

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[Meck's] understated book, I Forgot to Remember, is more an account than a memoir. The matter-of-fact delivery makes the harrowing details of her ordeal stand out all the more.... Meck expressly wrote the book to show what traumatic brain injury is like. Her message to families is to be patient and to maintain realistic expectations, and never to accuse the injured person of faking symptoms or being intentionally difficult, as she was by her husband and, appallingly, her doctors.... [A] tale of triumph in the search for identity....which succeeds impressively.
Salley Satel - New York Times Book Review


The author recounts her grueling climb back to normalcy after an accident robs her of her memory and sense of self in this heartwrenching true story.
Oprah Magazine


A remarkable memoir....unnervingly honest, straightforward to a degree that makes every other memoir I’ve read seem evasive, self-conscious, and preening.... Unlike that of everyone else around her, [Su Meck’s] adult life wasn’t the result of imagining a happy future, pursuing it with a sense of purpose and then figuring out whether or not her dreams have been fulfilled, betrayed, or misbegotten. Her life was simply ‘the way things were’—until, that is, she realized she was in a position to have some say about that. And seeing her seize that opportunity makes for a happier ending than any fairy tale can offer.
Salon.com


[S]trangely compelling.... [Meck]re-creates the freak accident in her Fort Worth kitchen that ...left her with a...devastating memory loss.... Meck went through the motions of being a wife and mother...without there being any substance behind her facade of normalcy. [She] relates with excruciating honesty her journey out of oblivion.
Publishers Weekly


In this remarkable memoir, Meck chronicles her experiences as she learned to live in ‘a house full of strangers'.... Compelling and inspirational and, one hopes, an important impetus for ongoing brain research.
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