Headstrong

She didn't see the hammer. For a fraction of a second JoAnne Jones saw a young black face framed by a black hoodie and then she descended into a place where she felt and saw nothing. Jones survived this sudden assault by a stranger but it left her with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) fractured hands and PTSD. <i>Headstrong</i> tells the story of how she learned to live with the daily challenges of TBI. It brings the reader into a life traumatized by violence and set in the context of a society full of violence and vocal visible white supremacists. Woven throughout Jones's account are the stories of how medical professionals friends family and strangers became a foundation strong enough to hold her during the worst of times and to give her the buoyancy to find a path toward hope.