Publisher's Synopsis
The Memory I Don't Own is a powerful memoir of fractured identity, neurological awakening, and the quiet resilience needed to rebuild a life from the shadows of loss.
After a sudden fall, the narrator wakes in a hospital bed-partially paralysed, voiceless, and cut off from memory. Her world has shifted. English no longer feels like her own. Spanish slips from her grasp. Disoriented between languages, places, and realities, she embarks on a journey not just of recovery, but of redefinition.
Time bends. Senses deceive. Flickers of past and present blur into dreams, hallucinations, and ancestral echoes. As trust dissolves and deeper truths begin to surface, one question becomes impossible to ignore: what truly happened at the top of the stairs?
Spanning sterile hospital rooms in England to sacred rituals in the Andean highlands, this lyrical memoir explores how memory can fracture, how identity can be rebuilt from the body up, and how healing-like a mountain climb-is uneven, slow, and filled with moments of both fear and transcendence.
With elements of neuroscience, lived trauma, and ancient wisdom, The Memory I Don't Own offers a deeply personal exploration of what it means to reconnect-to self, to language, and to the stories we carry in our bones.
