Samanta Bloom’s story first made its way through social media and, via two book releases, also through the print press and is now known worldwide. The story has been somewhat cannibalized, but despite the media exposure, still very sympathetic.
It began in 2013 with a serious accident involving the mother of three during a family vacation in Thailand. As a result, she retained a paraplegia and experienced many unpleasant things that each affected person knows how to tell in his own unique way. Then two things came together. First, a little bird entered the family life and secondly, the husband and father Cameron Bloom is a photographer by trade. In sum, this resulted in numerous photos in the social media, which received a lot of attention.
This resulted in a photographic book that found its way to Germany in 2017. A detailed review of this book can be found on my book blog (only in german: Penguin Bloom: Der kleine Vogel, der unsere Familie rettete). This picture book was framed by the narration of Cameron Bloom as prologue and a letter of the mother Samantha Bloom as epilogue. Already this combination of illustrated book and narration was very emotional and transported this story very impressively.
In 2021, the book by Samantha Bloom then also found its way to Germany, in which she tells in great detail about her life and how she had lived before and after her accident (I also presented this book in more detail on my book blog (only in german): Wieder fliegen lernen: Meine Geschichte). It is also this book that was made into a movie with Naomi Watts.
The book starts out very devastating.
Since I only have the books translated into German, there may be translation issues when I translate them back to English.
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