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A profoundly powerful and inspirational memoir.In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to live their dream: to sail around the world. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course by a mere ten degrees. And changed everything. After surviving forty-four hours in the water, with a back broken in several places and paralyzed below the waist, Judith miraculously survived. Doctors would later say she suffered one of the worst cases of post-traumatic stress syndrome ever documented. News of the collision made headlines around the world, but, distraught, Judith never talked to the press. Her body was broken, and so was her soul.Twelve years later, Judith turned to her best friend, Hester Rumberg, and asked her to write what was too painful for her to write. The result is a gripping, unbelievable yet true story of one family's love, of profound loss, and of a remarkable woman who decided to live when others might have decided otherwise. But always it is a stunning account of survival, a meditation on the strength of friendship and community. It is a universal tale of how any of our lives might be unexpectedly altered, how we might have to change what we hope for, and how we can move forward in times of tragedy.Judith Sleavin now divides her time between Portland, Oregon, and New Zealand.
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Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Shipwreck victims, Family, Cargo ships, Boating accidents, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Pan Grace (Cargo ship), Melinda Lee (Sailboat), Shipwrecks, Biography, Shipwreck survival, Sailboats, New zealand, biographyPeople
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Ten Degrees of Reckoning: The True Story of a Family's Love and the Will to Survive
2009-02-19, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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Ten degrees of reckoning: a true story of the will to survive
2009, Amy Einhorn Books
in English
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039915535X 9780399155352
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Ten Degrees of Reckoning
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
Electronic resource
in English
1101016132 9781101016138
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Ten Degrees of Reckoning
Nov 11, 2007, Brand: UTD Press, UTD Press
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0973002778 9780973002775
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