The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1565129970 ISBN13: 9781565129979 Release Date: January 2013 Publisher: Algonquin Books Length: 270 Pages Weight: 0.63 lbs. Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1" After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to relearn everything: how to eat, how to walk and to speak, even things as basic as his sexual orientation. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day (his brain exploded just before his brother's wedding ), as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the process, he introduces readers to his family--his principal support group, as well as a constant source of frustration and amazement. Irreverent, coruscating, angry, at times shocking, but always revelatory, his memoir takes the reader into unfamiliar territory, much like the experience Alice had when she fell down the rabbit hole. That he lived to tell the story is miraculous; tha