Gone
Book Feature - GONE: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life by Linda Olson
HBL Note: “Gone asks readers to find not only courage but also laughter in the unexpected adversities we all face.” Raise your hand if you needed to be reminded of this while we all struggle to cope during this pandemic. I’ll go ahead and raise both of my hands since I’m facing both the pandemic and a house fire. These are not the adversities Linda Olson writes about in her memoir, Gone, but I think her perspective on life is one we could all borrow from. She lost her arm and her legs when a train hit her van while she and her husband were on vacation - in a moment, her life turned upside down. Scroll down to read more about GONE: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life by Linda Olson.
Book Feature - GONE: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life by Linda Olson
Book Feature - GONE: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life by Linda Olson
From the publisher:
At age twenty-nine, Linda Olson, M.D. FACR was vacationing with her husband in Germany when their van was hit by a train, shattering their lives as well as her body. “I didn’t marry your arms or your legs. If you can do it, I can do it,” was the first thing her husband said to her in the hospital after she woke up as a triple amputee. For thirty-five years, Linda and Dave kept the truth of what happened from their family. Now in her courageous new release GONE: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life (on sale October 27, She Writes Press), Olson shares the inspiring true story about what happens when you really stay by each other through the worst life can hit you with. A heartwarming and captivating read for fans of The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams, On My Own Two Feet by Amy Purdy, and Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene.
Book Feature - GONE: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life by Linda Olson
