I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780735274136.

An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britains bestselling novelists, as she reminds us that we are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie OFarrells astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her in the hospital for nearly a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a serial killer on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to lifes myriad dangers. Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and a restrained emotion, OFarrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty and mysteries of life itself.