REVIEWED BY BETH PERRY
MEMOIR
In 2006 Greenberg felt a burning pain in her skull. "It has never gone away since," she writes. The mother of two—who severed a vertebra in a teenage car accident—still had a broken neck. Over the next year, she endured a series of brutal medical procedures, abused painkillers and even considered suicide. Broken can feel solipsistic, but when Greenberg re-engages with the world beyond pain, the results are stirring: At a rare dinner out, she writes, "guffawing, I felt my head ache; guffawing louder, I chose to ignore it."
