Once upon a time, a young Ukrainian-Canadian named Laurie grew up in poverty in 1930's Montreal. She was smart and beautiful, and had a mother who believed Cinderella tales do come true.
At first Laurie's life seemed destined to be carefree and pointed to a happy ending. She forged a successful career as a model, married the love of her life, and had four children. Then a car crash changed everything.
In it Laurie suffered extensive back injuries requiring major spinal reconstruction surgeries throughout her life. After a long period of painful rehabilitation she relearned how to walk again. Now a multi-tasking mother, she helped sustain the the family during a financial crisis when her husband suffered a severe depression.
With difficulty she eventually came to terms with the trauma she had suffered and embarked on an intellectual journey leading to a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion. The life that followed Laurie's accident has been entirely unexpected in its twists and turns right down to the present time. In "Surviving Life: A Memoir", Laurie McRobert shares how the crash changed her priorities, and how those changes helped her overcome future obstacles.
About the Author: Laurie McRobert was an athletic teenager, engaging in ski-racing and ski-jumping with enthusiasm. She married at age twenty-one and had four children while working as a successful model.
After a serious car accident, modeling became impossible, so McRobert turned her attention to more passive, intellectual interests. She received a PhD in philosophy of religion from McGill University in 1986, where she lectured in the department of philosophy.
McRobert has written books on diverse subjects, including Char Davis's Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality, Appearances: Genetic Mythology and Cosmic Instincts, and Emil Fackenheim's Quest: from Philosophy to Prophetic Theology. Surviving Life: A Memoir is a very different, deeply personal book compared to her previous works.
