Kara Stanley Knihy

Exploring the profound impact of a life-altering brain and spinal cord injury, this narrative intertwines personal recovery with the healing power of music and love. Kara Stanley shares her intimate journey alongside her husband, highlighting the latest scientific insights into brain recovery. The story serves as both a poignant love story and a testament to resilience, illustrating how relationships and creativity can play crucial roles in overcoming adversity.

On the day that Lou James finds her father dead on the garage floor, she leaves her small hometown and heads for Toronto on a Greyhound, initiating a series of events that will reshape her life. Lou moves in with her brother and begins a new existence all the while trying to make sense of her father's unexpected death and the sudden loss of her place in the world. When a series of savage and homicidal acts plague her new neighbourhood, Lou, following in her journalist father's footsteps, attempts to investigate. As her final year of high school unfolds, Lou comes perilously close to discovering the truth, and violence erupts, once again unravelling her world. She hops on a Greyhound, propelled by the urgent need to bridge the distance between the life she shared with her father and this precarious new existence where he grows ever more remote to her.