Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir

A mother reflects on the aftermath of her son’s traumatic brain injury in this unflinching portrait of loss, love, and the pitfalls of modern medicine.

“Like The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion . . . a spare, sharp memoir about the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief.” —The Sunday Times

When Lu Spinney’s 29-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, he lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma. Thus begins the erratic loss that unravels over the n...