Amazon.com Review
Business owner turned thriller writer Richard Greener penned blood and vengeance galore in the two novels he wrote while awaiting a heart transplant. Complications during the surgery caused him to slip into a coma. To the outside world he lay motionless for a month, but Greener’s experience of that month was as graphic and tense as his novels. In his mind, he was furiously living out his days as a hostage of radical extremists or as a fugitive on the run from a ruthless, rifle-toting Dick Cheney. On awakening from the coma, things got impossibly more strange. In this fascinating and suspenseful personal essay, the author grapples with the reality of not quite knowing what is or was real. All the while this piece pushes forward another theme: that of learning to live with someone else’s heart. This deeply satisfying read combines suspense and existentialism with an Oliver Sacks-like inquiry into neurological curiosities. --Paul Diamond
Product Description
Richard Greener tells the story of his heart transplant and the complications that turned him into a paranoid and suicidal quadriplegic who couldn't move a muscle, couldn't even swallow. He had violent hallucinations based on the Iraq war and the reports of terrorism and violence constantly playing on his hospital TV tuned into CNN. He believed his family to be in danger, but he had no way to communicate with them. For a long time after the whole ordeal, he had trouble knowing what had happened. What was real and what wasn't.
If part of the core of who we are is our memory, what does it mean when the memory is still there, but false?
If part of the core of who we are is our memory, what does it mean when the memory is still there, but false?
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