We All Come Home Alive

<p><i>My life has shocked me. One of the shocks has been sadness; death and other instances of impossibility. But the greater shock has been joy. I feel the hard flint of joy within my chest, the strength of it. It has stunned me with its refusal to be repressed.</i><br><br>A life is made up of many shocks - the shock of birth, of death; the shock of love, of happiness; the shock of car crashes and finding yourself in a teenage body; the shock of surviving each of these shocks, and of what might bloom in their wake.<br><br>In this incredibly beautiful book, Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the shocks she has experienced.</p>