There will shortly be reviews around the web for this book. Meanwhile, these are interesting early ones that have already appeared in a few places:

 

“To be perfectly honest, I have little cause for complaint. There are only a few additional things I have to think hard about.” That’s what Tom East concludes after “lightning has struck him twice”. Indeed, he is so detached, so lucid about it that I wonder why he has written this book in the first place. Usually, people, after such ordeals they go through, take advantage of every opportunity to make the most of it, either begging for sympathy or getting what the ancient Greeks called catharsis. Tom East is the exception. His purpose, seemingly, is to give us a lesson (using all the tools of a professional writer) in endurance and recovery, about the strength and resilience one has to find in themselves in order to go back to normal, describing in detail, patiently, his more or less successful efforts, his entertaining experiences, and even providing a medicine of his own device – therapy poems. The overall tone of the book, therefore, is serene and optimistic, prodding readers to take every drama that comes their way as lightly as they can afford to. Tom East is, definitely, a man who has managed to bury the hatchet with his own self. I think we should all do the same. 

DR PETRU IAMANDI