Overcome

By Carmen Blandin Tarleton

Subjects: Marital violence, Abused women, Biography, Chemical burns, Burns and scalds, Patients, Disfigured persons, People with visual disabilities, Rape in marriage

Description: "On June 10, 2007, Carmen Blandin Tarleton's estranged husband broke into her rural Vermont home, beat her with a baseball bat, and doused her with industrial-strength lye ... Tarleton spent the next three and a half months in a medically induced coma, and when she awoke, it was to an unimaginable reality: she was blind and permanently disfigured, with burns covering more than eighty percent of her body. Her recovery would include months of painful rehab, dozens of surgeries, and total dependence on family, friends, and strangers for physical and financial care. With so much taken away, no one could have anticipated what Tarleton would gain from her experience: an awakening. A purpose. Joy. By sharing her struggles and ultimate victory over catastrophic loss, Tarleton proves that life is a choice--and, in the process, offers a rare glimpse into the best and worst corners of the human heart."--