The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage by Drew Magary

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Title: The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage

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Drew Magary, fan-favorite and former columnist, is known for his acerbic takes and his surprisingly nuanced chronicling of his own life. But in , he finds himself far out of his depths. On the night of the 2018 Deadspin Awards, he suffered a mysterious fall that caused him to smash his head so hard on a cement floor that he cracked his skull in three places and suffered a catastrophic brain hemorrhage. For two weeks, he remained in a coma. The world was gone to him, and him to it. In his long recovery from his injury, including understanding what his family and friends went through as he lay there dying, coming to terms with his now permanent disabilities, and trying to find some lesson in this cosmic accident, he leaned on the one sure thing that he knows and that didnt leave him—his writing.Drew takes a deep dive into what it meant to be a bystander to his own death and figuring out who this new Drew is: a Drew that doesnt walk as well, doesnt taste or smell or see or hear as well,