{"product_id":"friendly-fire-a-fractured-memoir-9781400247950","title":"Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne month before his college graduation, Paul Rousseau is accidentally shot in the head by his roommate and best friend. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt some point in the course of Paul and Mark's friendship, Mark acquired--legally and with required permits--five firearms. Those weapons lived with them in their college apartment. It was a non-issue for the two best friends. They were inseparable. They were twenty-two-year-old boys at the height of their college experience, unaware that everything was about to change forever. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bullet ripped through two walls before it struck Paul's skull. Mark had accidentally pulled the trigger while in the other room and--frightened for his own future--delayed getting treatment for Paul, who miraculously remained conscious the entire time. In vivid detail, \u003cem\u003eFriendly Fire \u003c\/em\u003ebrings us into the world of both the shooting itself and its surgical counterpoint--the dark spaces of survival in the face of a traumatic brain injury and into the paranoid, isolating, dehumanizing maw of personal injury cases. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFriendly Fire \u003c\/em\u003eis the story of a friendship--both its formation and its destruction. Through phenomenal writing and gripping detail, Paul reveals a compelling and inspirational story that speaks to much of contemporary American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Horizon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400247950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256","brand":"Paul Rousseau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44431960965301,"sku":"9781400247950","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e55ed28e-883a-492d-a523-355dc8f6ea11.jpg?v=1721139088","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/friendly-fire-a-fractured-memoir-9781400247950","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}