Working it out on the page

I just read an excellent book by Darin Strauss called "Half a Life." The author discusses an accident he had half his life ago while driving, when he hit a sixteen year old girl on a bike who suddenly crossed from three lanes over into his car's path. He was eighteen at the time. It's a courageous, honest, and generous review of what he has gone through, and how he has lived life as this tragedy hovered over him through the years.