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Audie Prize, Autobiography/Memoir, 2016 Each of them thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for 10 years. In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, aged 12, dropped inexplicably ill. First he lost his speech and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned real human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within 1 . 5 years he was mute and wheelchair bound. Martin's parents were advised an unfamiliar degenerative disease remaining him with your brain of a baby and fewer than two years to live. Martin was migrated to care centers for greatly disabled children. The stress and heartache shook his parents' marriage and their family to the main. Their young man was gone. Or so they thought. Ghost Son is the heart-wrenching tale of one boy's return to life through the energy of love and trust. In these pages readers see a parent's resilience, the results of misdiagnosis, maltreatment as a result of cruel caretakers, and the unthinkable length of time of Martin's mental alertness betrayed by his lifeless body. We also see a life reclaimed - an enterprise created, a fresh love kindled - all from a wheelchair. Martin's emergence from his darkness invites us to commemorate our very own lives and fight for better lives for others.
