About the Book
"IMAGINE YOU JUST WOKE FROM A DREAM...
NOW IMAGINE that instead of waking up in your bed, this particular morning you awake to find yourself in the middle of the ocean. You are alone and naked, and you see nothing but blue all around. [...] You pipe out of the water, searching with your eyes for land, and finally spot what appears to be the beach where you started your swim. Startled, stranded and confused, you bob up and down in the chopping waves, wondering if you will ever make it back.
THIS IS WHERE MY STORY BEGINS."
FROM FOLLY is the amazing true story of a 21-year-old college student's survival in the ocean following a failed suicide attempt. Matthew's plan was to swim out as far as he could into the Atlantic Ocean so that even if he wanted to turn back at the last minute, it would be too late. Yet when the time came to drown himself, he recognized something that would change him forever. At the brink of death, he finally saw the value of life.
