"After a freak accident, a young woman must recover from trauma and find what will make her whole again. Warm, funny, and brutally honest about what it means to feel vulnerable, this is a story of trauma and recovery for our time"-- Provided by publisher.

An explosion in Brooklyn -- Fight or flight? Our built-in threat-defense program -- Diagnosis: spaghetti wrist -- Instrument of instruments: anatomy of the hand -- My family flies to my side -- Big-wave surfing: replanting a partially amputated hand -- Under water on the Upper East Side -- With respect to pain: how it helps and works -- At home with strangeness -- After the unthinkable: psychological recovery -- Music city TLC -- Pins and needles: peripheral nerve regeneration -- Farewell to the dream team -- It's all up to you, kiddo: rehabilitating a replanted hand -- Rotas and meltdowns -- Struggling with the status quo -- New normal: my right hand today.