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  • Published: 3 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241976821
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Tell Me the Planets

Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive





Fascinating stories from the front-line of brain injury, as well as an account of an extraordinary friendship

What if you remembered things that never happened?
Or you forgot everything every few seconds?
Or one side of your body stopped working?

In Tell Me the Planets Ben Platts-Mills explores the fractured lives of survivors of brain injury, providing an extraordinary glimpse into their daily struggles to lead normal lives. With empathy and insight, he describes their efforts to understand what has happened to them, avoid homelessness, help others worse off than themselves and make risky, almost impossible medical decisions about their futures. Essential and inspiring, Tell Me the Planets will take you on a journey to the frontiers of science and the limits of human resilience.

  • Published: 3 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241976821
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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