Amy Scher is a brave warrrior and a wonderful writer. She is a living example (very much living!) of what it looks like when a woman takes her health, her heart, and her destiny into her own hands.”
– ELIZABETH GILBERT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
This Is How I Save My Life
From California to India, a True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything
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This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, A True Story Of Finding Everything When You are Willing To Try Anything
By Amy B. Scher
(Gallery Books at Simon & Schuster, April 2018)
THIS IS HOW I SAVE MY LIFE by Amy B. Scher is a true story of a fiery young woman’s heartwarming and hilarious journey that takes her from near-death in California to a trip around the world in search of her ultimate salvation. With an updated vaccine record and her neurotic-but-loving Jewish parents in tow, saving her life would become something none of them could have imagined. Along the way, Amy discovers a world of cultural mayhem, radical medical treatment, goats wearing sweaters, an unexpected romance, and, most importantly, a piece of her life she never even knew she was missing.
When everyone gave up on her ...
When Amy B. Scher was struck with undiagnosed late-stage, chronic Lyme disease, the best physicians in America labeled her condition incurable and potentially terminal. Deteriorating rapidly, she went on a search to save her own life—from the top experts in Los Angeles and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis to a state-of-the-art hospital in Chicago. After exhausting all of her options in the US, she discovered a possible cure—but it was highly experimental, only available in Delhi India, and had as much of a probability of killing her as it did of curing her. Knowing the risks, Amy and her family packed their bags anyway.
She risked her own life to find it
In the book, Amy writes: “I only set my mind on a singular mission: to go get the cure in India so I could come home and get on with the rest of my life. This was Life or Death, not Eat, Pray, Love. There would be no epic spiritual crisis to endure, no humorous travel tales to tell, and there was zero chance of falling madly in love. I couldn’t hear the Universe laughing in my face back then, but I am sure now that it was.”
In fact, it must have been laughing hard – because just as Amy thought the plot twists of her life were behind her, she got the biggest surprise yet. After being straight her whole life, she met and fell in love with a woman who had traveled to the Indian stem cell hospital to visit her mother being treated for ALS.
But this is not just another story of illness or healing
“In her stunning new memoir, the refrain 'we are the healing we’ve been waiting for' rings throughout…a beautiful testament to resilience that veers from the comical to the tragic.”
- LA Review of Books
THIS IS HOW I SAVE MY LIFE is a powerful and uplifting story of sheer determination for anyone who believes in—or doubts—the power of family, the capacity to love, and the existence of miracles when it seems like all hope is lost.
Praise for the book
“Amy Scher is a brave warrior and a wonderful writer. She is a living example (very much living!) of what it looks like when a woman takes her health, her heart, and her destiny into her own hands. My hope is that this book will inspire many other women to do the same.”
ELIZABETH GILBERT
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic
“A heartwarming and inspiring story that will change the way you look at life.”
VIKAS SWARUP
New York Times bestselling author of Slumdog Millionaire
“This Is How I Save My Life is a captivating memoir of Amy's journey of pain, suffering and adversity that is conquered by courage, faith and the strong inner pull to return to wholeness and be healed. A delightful and inspiring read.”
SANJIV CHOPRA, MD, MACP, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Author of Brotherhood with Deepak Chopra
"This Is How I Save My Life is the rare book that is both breezy and deep. You'll absorb valuable and often hilarious insights as you can feel Amy Scher shed emotional weight on her hunt for an elusive cure, but more than anything it speaks to the magic of rugged international travel, and how it can tempt and taunt you to open your mind and heart until you expand into the very best version of yourself, or perhaps become someone entirely new."
ADAM SKOLNICK
Author of One Breath and over 30 Lonely Planet travel guides
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