Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine

Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine

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SKU TBM9781863959698
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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781863959698
Author: Lech Blaine
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Black Inc
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 362 pages
Period: 21st Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

What is it like to survive a crash that kills your best friends, and how do you move on? From an exceptional debut writer comes a stunning memoir about grief, perseverance and courage.

Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party.

They never arrived. The driver - who was not drunk or high - made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew off the road. One passenger died on impact. Others were flung from the car. Lech walked away uninjured. In the aftermath, two more died in hospital, and one was left disabled in an incident that convulsed their rural community.

Crippled by guilt, Lech turned to social media, cultivating a persona as the ultimate 'grateful survivor'. Over time, he spiralled into risk-taking and depression. His public bravado fell away as he tried to accept how an accident - one wretched error of youth and inexperience - had changed the trajectory of so many lives.

How do we grieve in an age of social media? How does tragedy shape a community? And how does a boy on the cusp of manhood develop a sense of self when his world has exploded? This stunning memoir pulls no punches. It marks Lech Blaine as a writer to watch. (back cover)

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