Book: Left Neglecte
Author: Lisa Genova
Pages: 352
This is my 50th read for the year
This is the story of Sarah. Sarah has a busy mom with a high powered job that takes up 80 hours of her week. She has three young children that, when she is lucky,gets home in time to see them off to bed. She loves her job and her life, but sometimes feels a little guilty that she cannot be there as much as she would like for her family.
One day, Sarah's life changes. She is in an accident that leaves her unable to see anything on the left. Called Left Neglect, she doesn't know what she is not seeing. After a month in a coma and weeks in rehab, she is sent home to try and regain her life. While she heals, she starts to realize all she was missing out on with her larger than life job. The accident that almost killed her, helped her learn to rebalance what was important in her life.
This was a pretty good book. This is my third Genova book and I have liked them all. Genova has a Ph.D in Neuroscience from Harvard, so she knows her stuff. And she is a very good writer. I didn't LOVE Sarah the character. The way Genova wrote her about how she felt about disabilities did rub me the wrong way since I have a child with a disability. Sarah's son is diagnosed with ADHD, and instead of talking to him about it, when he is put on medication they call them vitamins. And even she refused to be labeed as a disabeled person. While near the end of the story this turns somewhat, I already had a bad taste about it. Sarah is also a self absorbed character, so it was hard to like her. On the flip side, I learned a lot, like I always do with Genova's books, about a diagnosis I knew little about. So that redemmed the book to a point.
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