The Museum of Words: a memoir of language, writing, and mortality

On a bright spring day in 2015, as Georgia Blain was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushed to hospital, she tries to answer questions, but is unable to speak. After the shock of a bleak prognosis—a tumor sitting right in the language center of her brain and a long, gruelling treatment schedule—she immediately turns to w...