Crashing Through by Robert Kurzon

Memoir

A remarkable story of a man who became blind at the age of three and had the opportunity to have his sight restored when he was forty-six. It would seem a miracle but this very interesting book shows how that is not really the case. What happens is that one's brain has not been seeing all those years and it's a huge adjustment and not completely resolved when you suddenly get your vision. A very insightful personal account and very well done.

Submitted by the Queen of the Hop

After the Fire: a true story of friendship and survival by Robin Gaby Fisher

This is an amazing true story of two young men seriously burnt in theSeton Hall University fire in 2000. They were new roommates who became best friends and provided great emotional support for each other through many months of heroic medical treatments. The author does a wonderful job of describing the emotions of everyone involved. It's a compassionate human story of real people surviving a horrific accident. It could be a sad book but you come away feeling uplifted.

Submitted by Queen of the Hop