Passage to Nirvana

On a beautiful spring day in 2002, Lee Carlson's life was transformed forever: Father, husband, freelance writer, son-all that was about to change. A careless speeding driver, a head hitting pavement; several days later Lee woke up in a hospital with a new identity: Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor. Passage to Nirvana tells the story of one person's descent into the hell of losing everything: family, home, health, even the ability to think, and the slow climb back to a normal life. Told in a unique creative style brought on by the author's brain injury, combining short poems and essays in an interwoven, exhuberant narrative, Passage to Nirvana is a memoir about Traumatic Brain Injury, Zen, sailing, love, poetry, kids & dogs. It is a book about finding a path to happiness after a traumatic life event. a choice that will confront all of us at one point in our lives, whether from the death of a loved one, a divorce, an accident, an addiction or a life-threatening disease.