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The author recovers from potentially permanent brain damage and is told to expect a physically compromised life.
While his peers are coming home from Vietnam in body bags, he picks himself up like everything is the same as before he went out.
Harboring a thirst for knowledge of his world, he traveled the US and Europe mostly alone. Now looking back from seventy-five years, he put together a 'debut' memoir - from near death to a full life over.learning to play golf alongside fourteen year old Cadet Corporal Donald Trump at the military school they both attended.
Reviewed by Janelle Fila for Readers' Favorite
After a head-on collision that killed two people, author Robert Stephen Hamlin finds himself waking from unconsciousness in a hospital bed in the ICU. After a year full of operations and physical therapy to relearn simple tasks like walking, Robert recovers from potentially permanent brain damage. His doctors say his life will be one of limited physical activity. But Robert recovers to become stronger not only in his body, but also in his spirit and mind. Another chance to live enables him to see that life should be a daily adventure.
I loved the attention to detail in The Curse of Iqbal: Memoir of a Ship Broker's Son by Robert Stephen Hamlin. Every scene of this memoir showed me exactly what I needed to see and I could picture those objects, the characters, the setting with absolutely stunning detail. Sometimes authors can be really vague in their descriptions or forget to describe at all, so having that detailed description was something I really appreciated. It is so nice when the reader and the author are on the exact same page and are seeing, smelling, touching, and hearing the exact same things.
I love the pages about Donald Trump. It's a timely topic right now and people are very interested in anything to do with "the Donald." I think readers will love the inspiring message in this book; that no matter what happens to us in life we should take it with a pinch of salt and keep moving forward. Just the fact that Robert Stephen Hamlin was able to write this book should be seen as a huge inspiration.
