Excerpt from full review of Lauren Manning's story of surviving 9/11 with burns over 80 percent of her body. 

"The story worth reading, and make no mistake about it, is that Lauren Manning is a survivor. She is one tough mother. Instinctively she threw an arm up to protect her face when she was enveloped in flame at the elevator. Intelligently, she ran from the World Trade Center to a nearby lawn and stopped, dropped, and rolled, and with the help of a stranger, put the fire out. Aggressively, she took charge of her own care to get out of the Greenwich Village hospital where she was first taken with an ambulance full of other wounded, because she quickly determined that the hospital was ill equipped for burn care. The real story, then, was in Lauren’s physical and psychological struggle, her fight to become a survivor, even after she was moved to a burn unit in another hospital."