Bøker av Mary Ellen Gambutti

Fortitude's Footing is the powerful memoir of an active, creative woman whose life is dramatically altered while on a bus trip with family and friends through the western Pennsylvania Highlands. In a flash, she is incapacitated, and her foray into the wilderness of a major brain hemorrhage begins. Her counterpunch to sudden powerlessness -- the will to recover -- inspires and gives hope to others facing a lengthy rehabilitation from traumatic brain injury, as well as to those who care for them.

Permanent Home: A Memory Collection This charming collection of lyrical vignettes from the life of an adopted military officer's daughter offers glimpses of loss and privilege in the 1950s and '60s, her survival of a catastrophic health event in middle age, the quest for identity, and discovery of heritage.

This is a story of loss and discovery told through letters, vignettes, essays, fragments, and images. ¿Born and relinquished in 1951 and adopted by a military couple, family separations and the transience of military duty, a culture of secrecy, and sealed birth record laws form barriers to this seeker's search for her truth.