As I Search For A Soft Place To Fall

On July 17th 2018, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. I was not as shocked as you might think. When I was 12 years old, growing up in Sao Paulo, my pediatrician told me I had a stain on my brain. Looking back, I should have known that was bullshit. I guess the word stain was less scary for a kid than calling it a tumor, but looking back was something I had yet to do. As I Search For A Soft Place To Fall, my debut memoir, is the story of what led me t...