Tying The Ribbon
Written and published when Haley Stark was sixteen, Tying the Ribbon is a deeply personal memoir drawn from the diary entries she kept throughout her recovery. Originally written simply to document her experiences, the collection became a way to preserve and share the support of her community and the love she encountered along the road to recovery. Honest, intimate, and unapologetic, the book moves deliberately between moments of joy and raw, painful emotion, chronicling both the physical realities of paralysis and the gradual return of nerve function, as well as the mental battles and triumphs that accompanied her recovery. Told in an immediate, unsophisticated voice, Tying the Ribbon invites readers into her experience with unusual candor—at times funny, at times heartbreaking, and often brutally truthful.
