Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap

Judy Goldman

fbl 2019 · Penguin Random House Audio · Lu par Kathe Mazur

À propos de ce livre audio

Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their struggle to regain their "normal" life.

When Judy Goldman’s husband of almost four decades has a routine spinal injection to alleviate back pain, he is instantly paralyzed from the waist down—a phenomenon no doctor can explain or undo. She’s forced to take over, navigating the byzantine medical world they suddenly find themselves in. Her husband is forced to give in. This is the starting point for Together, which looks at the changes every couple faces—the slow, ordinary ones brought about by time and the sudden, dramatic ones that take us by surprise. Identities shift; roles switch. How do we adjust?  How do we let go of the if-onlys? Together is a deeply honest story about the life we dream of and the life we make—an elegant and empathetic meditation on what happens to love, over time and all at once.

À propos de l'auteur

JUDY GOLDMAN is the author of two novels, Early Leaving and The Slow Way Back. The Slow Way Back was a finalist for SIBA's Novel of the Year and winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction. Her memoir Losing My Sister was a finalist for both SIBA's Memoir of the Year and ForeWord Review's Memoir of the year. Her work has appeared in Real Simple, Our State, Charlotte, and in many literary journals. She teaches writing workshops throughout the Southeast, including serving on the permanent faculty of Table Rock Writers Workshop. Born and raised in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Goldman has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, for many years. She and her husband have two children and four grandchildren.