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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Jessica Barcomb’s first novel tells a story of healing and hope
Description: 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, di...