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Book Review of Left Neglected

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


I loved, loved, loved this book! Narrator Sarah, a Harvard MBA and vice president at a consulting firm, works crazy hours, multitasking every moment, trying to fit everything into her life. Then in the blink of an eye, she loses half of everything--the left half--and then finds that, in many ways, her traumatic brain injury adds value to her life instead of diminishing it. This is a really fascinating portrayal of a character with Hemispatial Neglect (or Left Neglect), by an author with a PhD in neuroscience.