Jessica Barcomb’s first novel tells a story of healing and hope

Jessica Perrin Barcomb was in her twenties, she fell through a stairwell and landed on her head. She was in a coma and had to be resuscitated several times.

It made her angry then when people told her that things happen for a reason.

But now she realizes she learned so much, especially on the road to recovery.

Barcomb has just published her first novel, which opens with the description of a terrible car accident. The book’s central character, Rebecca, at age 7, survives, after a coma, but her beloved mother, a healer, dies.

Barcomb, who has wanted to be a writer her whole life, stresses in this week’s Enterprise podcast, that the book is not autobiographical. Even so, she has drawn on many of her real-life experiences to make it vivid.

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