I Am I Am I Am

I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell

A curious memoir, gripping, lucid and raw. These are little vignettes of how the author has nearly died seventeen different times. Each chapter title is the name of the part of the body that would have been the cause of death: neck, lungs, spine, legs, pelvis, abdomen, head… It’s not a tragic or depressing book …