In this beautiful and chilling memoir, twenty-five-year-old Samantha Abeel describes her struggles with a math-related learning disability, and how it forced her to find inner strength and courage. Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter -- and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like these made no sense. She dreaded school, and began having anxiety attacks. In her thirteenth winter, she found the courage to confront her problems -- and was diagnosed with a learning disability. Slowly, Samantha's life began to change again. She discovered that she was stronger than she'd ever thought possible -- and that sometimes, when things look bleakest, hope is closer than you think.


在這本淒美的回憶錄裡，25 歲的薩曼莎•阿貝爾訴說自身克服數學學習障礙的過程，以及她如何迫使自己找尋內在的力量和勇氣。薩曼莎•阿貝爾已經是個七年級生了，但她不會讀時間，記不得置物櫃的密碼，在收銀台也不會找零錢。這樣的問題對於學習成績總是拿 A 級的薩曼莎來說完全不合理，她因此害怕上學且開始產生焦慮。在她 13 歲的那個冬天，薩曼莎重新找到面對自身問題的勇氣，也就在這個時候，醫生診斷出她有學習障礙。漸漸地，薩曼莎的人生又再次翻轉，她發現自己比想像中更堅強，也發現有時當一切看似毫無轉機，希望其實就在離你不遠處。