Whose Idea Was This? ALS as My New Normal

Holly Ladd's ALS diagnosis came in the summer of 2012. A no-nonsense lawyer, high-powered executive and civil rights activist, she made short work of putting her affairs in order. Holly then made a second, more unusual decision: to write a series of blogs chronicling the ensuing 24 months until her death in 2014. The result is this book: neither weepy nor romanticized, but a flinty, funny, reflective and surprising journal of her exterior reality and her interior life. It is a remarkable document created by an original mind.