(26) Overcome: Burned, Blinded & Blessed
Title: Overcome: Burned, Blinded, and Blessed by Carmen Blandin Tarleton Publisher: RTC Publishing 294 Pages Genre: Autobiography I received this book through netgalley.com as an advanced readers copy. It was released February 20, 2013 Synopsis: On June 10, 2007, Carmen Blandin Tarleton’s estranged husband broke into her rural Vermont home, beat her with a baseball bat, and doused her with industrial-strength lye. Doctors called it “THE MOST HORRIFIC INJURY A HUMAN BEING COULD SUFFER.” Tarleton spent the next three and a half months in a medically induced coma, and when she awoke, it was to an unimaginable reality: she was blind and permanently disfigured, with burns covering more than eighty percent of her body. Her recovery would include months of painful rehab, dozens of surgeries, and total dependence on family, friends, and strangers for physical and financial care. With so much taken away, no one could have anticipated what Tarleton would gain from her exp...