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I’m all in when it comes to a good memoir and this one delivers. At 28 Jessica Fechtor has a brain aneurysm that takes her on a wild ride of a journey. She strikes a good balance of just the right amount of detail. Too much and it gets laborious and too little and you have questions. Her tone is amazingly positive yet she still describes the feelings at times of wondering if she will truly be healthy again.

There is no “victim�� mentality or sense of entitlement over her circumstances. She is constantly grateful for the good care she received from the doctors and hospital staff and her family and friends.

Fechtor weaves in how food plays a key role in her recovery and includes a few recipes along the way. I like having a recipe or two from a memoir because when I make it it takes me back to the experience of reading the book, and that is a treat especially if I really enjoyed it.

She has a good sense of humor and I would find myself chuckling out loud over her descriptions of how things affected her.

I learned about this book from “A Year of Reading.��