Left Neglected

Left Neglected

One typical morning, Sarah Nickerson, a woman in her mid-thirties, is late for work, racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school and daycare. She tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when she takes her eye off the road for a second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt.

Sarah suffers a traumatic head injury. Her memory and intellect are intact, but she has lost all interest in, and the ability to perceive, information coming from the left side of space. The left side of her world has gone. Sarah only eats the food from the right side of her plate. She can't see her watch, or her engagement diamond or her wedding ring. She tries to use a wheel chair but can only spin in circles as her left arm dangles by her side.

Lisa Genova graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. Trading n her pipette fro a pen, she wrote her first novel, Still Alice, about a 50-year-old Harvard professor who develops young onset Alzheimer's Disease. Originally self-published, Still Alice was eventually bought by Simon and Schuster and debuted at number 5 on the New York Times bestseller list. It spent 33 weeks in the bestsellers and has been translated into over 20 languages. She lives with her husband and three children in Cape Cod.

Left Neglected
Simon and Schuster
Author: Lisa Genova
ISBN: 9780857202673
Price: $32.99