Struck: A Husband’s Memoir of Trauma and Triumph

By Douglas Segal

One of life's biggest clichés becomes a horrific reality when Douglas Segal's wife and young daughter are hit head-on by a Los Angeles city bus. Miraculously, his daughter was unharmed, but his wife faced a series of life-threatening injuries, including the same one that famously left Christopher Reeve paralyzed. Following the accident, Segal began sending regular email updates to their circle of friends and family—a list that continued to grow as others heard of the event and were moved by the many emotional and spiritual issues it raised. Segal's compelling memoir is an intimate and honest chronicle built around these email updates, and is a profound example of how people show up for one another in times of crisis.

Alternatingly harrowing, humorous, heartbreaking, and hopeful, this is an uplifting tribute to love, determination, and how the compassion of community holds the power to heal, serving as an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit when faced with pain and adversity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Prospect Park Books
• Release date: Sep 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781945551390

Douglas Segal

Douglas Segal is a writer and producer whose credits include movies for Warner Bros., Disney, and MGM and television for Fox, The CW, Showtime, A&E, History, Discovery Channel, and The Cartoon Network. Productions he has worked on have been nominated for Golden Globe, Grammy, and People’s Choice awards and have won numerous Teachers' Choice and Parents' Choice awards. He lives in Los Angeles with his family.