Will  I, Clay Byars
Will  I, Clay Byars
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Will & I
A Memoir

Author: Clay Byars

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Unabridged: 4 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/21/2016


Synopsis

What would you have left if you awoke and were told you would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of your life? After an almost fatal car crash and a botched surgery to repair nerve damage, that was Clay Byars's reality at eighteen years old. Determination became the only constant in his life from that point on, and, miraculously, he quickly began to defy the odds. Clay discovered a life far different from that of his identical twin brother, Will. As Clay's life changed in an unimaginable way, Will's continued as a typical college freshmen with the world at his feet, providing not only a foil to Clay's inability to live a normal life but a sense of familiarity and connection to himself. As Will went on to graduate, marry, and start a family, Clay carved out a unique existence, doing the seemingly impossible by living on his own on a remote farm in Alabama. With haunting clarity in an eloquent yet unsentimental retelling, Clay shares the unlikely story of his life and his coping mechanisms, including weekly singing lessons that do more than teach him to use his voice again--they remind him of his will to exist. In Will & I, the most striking parts of the story are not the details of a tragedy but the piercing insights that decorate Clay's sparse, honest way of seeing the world and bravely challenging himself and his abilities at every turn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Colton

I have read my brother's book twice now and it is amazing! Clay has a gift of writing and whether you know him or not, this book will touch your core like no other. The fact that Clay is even here to have written such an fabulous memoir is a miracle in itself and I hope everyone will read it. I coul......more

Goodreads review by Sandra

Will & I is a true story of a man who survived a near-fatal automobile accident and literally had to learn how to function anew. I found it compelling, though oddly-written. The prose had an other- wordly aspect to it & skipped around in a way that I felt perhaps mirrored his own physical limitation......more

Goodreads review by Mike

*Loved* this book. As illness memoirs go, it's an anti-illness memoir, but not in any contrived way. There's a harrowing experience, but the book's more concerned at unlocking the *personality* at the heart of it. Everyone who appears is real, and fails in a human way, including Byars himself. And t......more

Goodreads review by Theresa

I was so grateful to the author for using proper English in his title that I was predisposed to like the book. But it was honest and well-written, and again I was grateful for his insight into his life-altering accident.......more