In This Altered Body: A Survivor's Story of Resilience and Love

2024 IAN Book of the Year Award, Grand Prize Non-Fiction Books of the Year, Second Place

Charlene Pell wears her scars like badges of honor-she has never hidden them.

Thirty years ago, on a sunny afternoon, Charlene was on a private flight to Cat Island, Bahamas, when the unthinkable happened: the plane, piloted by her fiancé, experienced a mechanical problem and crashed in a fiery inferno. When Charlene awoke, she discovered that 64 percent of her body had been burned, and her fiancé had die...