Driving Home

Driving Home is a memoir focused on a single year of the author's life in which she and her 9-year-old daughter moved in with her dying mother she suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting from being hit by a semi-truck and she dealt with the reality of living hours away from her husband and their 5-year-old son. After the main events of the story are told the implications of the experience are addressed from a variety of different perspectives exploring the challenges and opportunities it presented. The story is seen through the lens of her identities as a daughter a mother a wife a researcher a yogi and a part of the Jewish tradition. With both honesty and optimism she presents her personal journey through universal themes of responsibility loss trauma striving connection and compassion.