Nonlinear memoir told in the form of essays about times the author almost died. I think the most intense stories were the ones at the end, dealing with nearly deadly sicknesses, although almost all of them are times she genuinely came very close to dying. For some reason, the stories about sickness resonated the most with me, even though I don't think I've ever been that sick, & I've probably been almost killed by vehicles like O'Farrell has. In one of the stories, O'Farrell recounts her childhood habit of heedlessly running out into the street, how she found herself drawn to wander out of the house and off into the world, and I wonder if her urge to go into the Ocean (and her resulting close calls) as a teen & adult is related to this. Perhaps it was just the way she described the experiences that drew out the similarities. I now feel very lucky that I have never been accosted by would-be murderers on any of the hikes I have gone on. Contrast to Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, where they say "the real animals stay in hotels. We'll be fine camping".