Epilepsy is a disability that greatly affects emotional, social and physical development. It always causes the child and parents to live in constant fear of the “next one”. Just Like the Lotus is a biography of 18 year old, Chiara Sparks, living with a disorder that hijacked her entire adolescence. Suffering several seizures a day she was unable to live a normal teen life. Her social and school life always involved having protective measures in place which made her feel different from her peers. Just Like the Lotus is a first-hand real and raw narrative of her experiences as she has struggled through the last six years of living with epilepsy. The book also contains accounts from her mother’s perspective as it also greatly impacted her life as well. Chiara weaves poetry and prose together to share her deepest thoughts about how epilepsy has changed her life and how hope was the only string she had to grasp onto.