Lisa Genova wrote the book Still Alice, which had me and my neighbors self-examining for early-onset Alzheimers for months. Now she’s used her degree in neurology to write Left Neglected, another novel about brain injury, this time the syndrome of “left-neglect,” which refers to right-hemisphere brain damage that results in a total unawareness of one’s left side, even though eyes, limbs, and organs on the left still work perfectly. I found the story-line fairly thin but the topic is completely engrossing. Finished in a day.
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