Explosive Paradise: From the Eyes of the Injured

Breta Gale and Meta are two sisters intrinsically connected to the Explosive Paradise of Montserrat. Their letters and poetry, spanning between 1979 and 1999, follow the sisters' journey healing from traumatic brain injury and cognitive impairments. Along the way, Meta finds romance and emerges from being a medical librarian to become a physician. Discover how two sisters cope with pain and cognitive impairments in 'Explosive Paradise: From the Eyes of the Injured.'

I emerged from the library and information science profession earning an MS degree from Simmons College in Boston. After becoming a certified medical librarian, a traumatic accident changed my world and my profession into a journey I never anticipated. Pain became an incentive to write. Pain drove me on a path to become a foreign medical graduate on the volcanic island of Montserrat, British West Indies before it began erupting. Currently I am a retired physician.