I think I had to read this for school at some point when I was a teenager, but it reeeeally hit me hard. The book was written using a coded system of blinks- the author would blink to indicate the next letter, employing the help of a third party to transcribe. It is the memoir of a man who had a massive stroke and a result, suffered from “locked-in syndrome” [biting my hand not to make a tasteless joke about being absolutely locked in], and therefore couldn’t speak or move much. My dad had a similarly severe stroke when I was 10 and was also unable to speak and had very limited movement, so reading this book gave me much-needed hope that my dad was “still in there,” so to speak, and was just a pretty gorgeous triumph of will, and very sad as well. I remember the movie also making me cry a lot
