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Book Review of Left Neglected

Left Neglected
Left Neglected
Author: Lisa Genova
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 1


Loved this and was inspired by it. It's the story of a woman who, due to a brain injury, has to work to remember that anything on the left exists. She isn't aware of the left side of her body, of a page, of a tree, etc. She has to work to "find" her left hand and remember to put it into a left sleeve, for example. Just understanding her condition is a challenge, much less understanding how she deals with her condition. The book is a novel, but the condition really exists. Very interesting read, by the same author who made early-onset Alzheimer's understandable in "Still Alice".