Juana Libedinsky “Downhill: A Memoir of an Accident, Two Comas, Many Books, and Starting Over”

Journalist and author Juana Libedinsky will present her new memoir, Downhill: A Memoir of an Accident, Two Comas, Many Books, and Starting Over, at Southampton Arts Center.

When a devastating skiing accident in the Patagonian Andes leaves Conrado, a New York lawyer at the height of his career, in a coma, it is not only his fate that hangs in the balance. His wife, Juana, and their two children have their lives upended overnight.

In Downhill (Urano Publishing; on sale September 22, 2026), Libedinsky tells the story she lived, tracing a journey from the vast stillness of the Andes to the fluorescent-lit hospital corridors of Buenos Aires and, eventually, to Manhattan and Southampton, where the family must learn how to rebuild a life when the crisis itself is supposedly over.