A review by gluten_full
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

dark hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

Her ability to write about the way Illness, pain, fear, and grief manifest in a person has dazzled me since Hamnet, and this book did not disappoint. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Chronic illness

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

It’s about a woman’s near death experiences, which include instances of illness in her childhood, threats by men, drowning, pregnancy and childbirth complications, and her child daughter’s own near death experience