Surviving Survival

By: Laurence Gonzales

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

You have survived the crisis - trauma, disease, accident, or war - now how do you get your life back?

The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki Glenn’s breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon, saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldn’t just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound survival journey: the aftermath.

The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don’t apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves. Drawing on gripping cases across a wide range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales fashions a compelling argument about fear, courage, and the adaptability of the human spirit. Micki Glenn was later moved to say: "I don’t regret that this happened to me. [It] has been...probably the single most positive experience I’ve ever had."

©2012 Laurence Gonzales (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Amazing insights on how people survive after trauma

Amazing insights on how people survive after trauma. I will be thinking about the experiences of the people in these stories for some time.

Good not as good as deep survival

Good not as good as deep survival, still it’s Laurence Gonzales he’s a great author

for survivors

i enjoyed this book and Deep Survival. I love his story telling and brought meaning to my life.

Superb

I was a big fan of Deep Survival. This read like a quintessential follow-up. It is just as superb.

As Good As (or even better) than Deep Survival

I've read Deep Survival three times, and listened to that same title audio book countless times. I've loved it for years. I cannot imagine why it has taken me so long to obtain Surviving Survival, but (although it seems impossible as I type it here) this book is every bit as good or (possibly ?) even better than Deep Survival.

Laurence Gonzales' writing style is totally engaging and the stories of these survivors (and those who did not survive) are raw with equal measures of emotion and scientific analysis of the brain. It is utterly captivating for the entire length of the book.

The narration by Kevin Stillwell is excellent, although not quite as good as the narration of Deep Survival by Stefan Rudnicki.