New novel gives insight into world of epilepsy (Buy It At Amazon.com)

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New novel gives insight into world
of epilepsy
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50 million people in the world have epilepsy,
A Great Place For A Seizure by Terry Tracy
is the story of one.

LONDON – A Great Place For A Seizure,
(ISBN: 1453834702) a debut novel by author
Terry Tracy, gives readers a glimpse of life with
epilepsy. Mischa Dunn's family leaves Chile in
the wake of the 1973 coup d’etat that installs a
military dictatorship. She settles comfortably in
her newly adopted country, the United States,
until one day an unexplained seizure in a library
transforms her forever. Her family and friends
accompany her on this journey with hopes for
the better and painful confusion over how to
help.

With an engaging balance of humor, insight
and sensitivity Mischa draws the reader into
a tale that travels across three continents
over thirty years. A Great Place for a Seizure
explores the power of the individual and the
choices we make that make us who we are.
Tracy observes, “There are three million people
in the United States with epilepsy, but this
condition remains a mystery to many. Movies
and television show what a seizure looks like
from the outside, but what is it like from the
inside? What does a person with epilepsy feel
and think? How does a person with epilepsy see
the world? A Great Place for a Seizure is just
one attempt to answer these questions.”

The stigma of epilepsy has shrouded the fact
that many significant historical figures lived
with this disability. Biographical research has
shown that Vincent Van Gogh, Socrates, Harriet
Tubman, Isaac Newton, Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Emily Dickinson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Agatha
Christie and Vladimir Lenin all had epilepsy.
American singers and songwriters Prince and
Neil Young, actor Danny Glover and British
theologian Karen Armstrong are among the 50
million people in the world who have also lived
the experience of epilepsy.

Tracy says, “Epilepsy is intriguing, frightening
and fascinating and a person with epilepsy often
lives a life that is intriguing, frightening, and
fascinating, in fact, a life worthy of a novel.”

A Great Place For A Seizure is available for
sale online at Amazon.com ($12.95) and also
available in e-book format on KINDLE ($3.44).
The e-book version is Text-to-Speech enabled.

About the Author: Terry Tracy has worked as
a human rights activist, journalist, and U.S.
diplomat. In 2007 she wrote the charter for an
association of employees with disabilities in the
U.S. State Department. Tracy has lived with
epilepsy for more than 25 years. Currently, she
resides in London with her family.
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