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| Original Title: | Left Neglected |
| ISBN: | 1439164630 (ISBN13: 9781439164631) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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| Title | : | Left Neglected |
| Author | : | Lisa Genova |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 324 pages |
| Published | : | January 4th 2011 by Gallery Books |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Medical |
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Sarah Nickerson is like any other career-driven supermom in Welmont, the affluent Boston suburb where she leads a hectic but charmed life with her husband Bob, faithful nanny, and three children - Lucy, Charlie, and nine-month-old Linus.Between recruiting the best and brightest minds as the vice president of human resources at Berkley Consulting; shuttling the kids to soccer, day care, and piano lessons; convincing her son’s teacher that he may not, in fact, have ADD; and making it home in time for dinner, it’s a wonder this over-scheduled, over-achieving Harvard graduate has time to breathe.
A self-confessed balloon about to burst, Sarah miraculously manages every minute of her life like an air traffic controller. Until one fateful day, while driving to work and trying to make a phone call, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In the blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her jam-packed life come to a screeching halt.
A traumatic brain injury completely erases the left side of her world, and for once, Sarah relinquishes control to those around her, including her formerly absent mother. Without the ability to even floss her own teeth, she struggles to find answers about her past and her uncertain future.
Now, as she wills herself to regain her independence and heal, Sarah must learn that her real destiny - her new, true life - may in fact lie far from the world of conference calls and spreadsheets. And that a happiness and peace greater than all the success in the world is close within reach, if only she slows down long enough to notice.
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Ratings: 3.97 From 68226 Users | 6783 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books Left Neglected
DNFI stopped reading this at a little under the half way mark. It's terrible. It's boring. It's repetitive. The main character is self-absorbed, insufferable and unlikable. I got tired of hearing about how great she is, how great she is at her job, how well educated she is...over and over again *eyeroll*The dream sequences at the beginning of the earlier chapters had me scratching my head. I'm not sure what the significance was.I also found her reaction to the "traumatic brain injury" sheBarnes & Noble are return Nazis. When I tried to return a Christmas gift for store credit (no receipt - it was a gift), the clerk was quite nasty about it. So I conceived an evil scheme: I would buy a book I was only mildly interested in (Lisa Genova's Left Neglected), read it, and then return it. Take that, B&N! A problem arose.Lisa Genova's book is...really good. Fascinating, actually. Sarah, the hard-driving, consulting-firm executive and mother of three, wins the daily gamble with
This is only one step elevated from being what I call an "issue" book, as the characters seem to be slightly more than profiles taken from the textbooks devoted to the issue, given names and bodies, and little else. On the other hand, in order to emphasize most thoroughly the impact of the medical condition she's chosen to explore, Genova has given us a main character is who is almost unbearably annoying.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and
In Left Neglected Lisa Genova explores the condition of "Left Neglect" also known as "Hemispatial Neglect". A condition where a person who has received a traumatic brain injury to one hemisphere of the brain, suffers an inability to perceive stimuli on one side of the body or field of vision. Sarah Nickerson lived a high powered, career motivated life. With a husband and three children thrown into the mix, she was constantly micro managing her time, juggling tasks and multi tasking. One morning
Left Neglected is an inspiring, informative and lightly humorous novel with a clear message for everyone to slow down and really think what they are doing. Our safety and life are not worth risking a deadline or an appointment. Sarah Nickerson and her husband, Bob, have a busy lifestyle. Bob works for a company that is financially unstable, and Sarah has a high profile position as vice president for a consulting firm. They are parents to young children, juggling a demanding career and home life,
Another amazing book from Lisa Genova.I found this review and the media reviews on BookBrowse. I listened to the book on audio cd, narrated by the capable Sarah Paulson (who is probably very glad she is not Sarah Nickerson!!) Sarah Nickerson is like any other career-driven supermom in Welmont, the affluent Boston suburb where she leads a hectic but charmed life with her husband Bob, faithful nanny, and three children - Lucy, Charlie, and nine-month-old Linus. A traumatic brain injury completely
I didn't find this book as powerful or influential as Genova's other two books, Still Alice and Inside the O'Briens, in fact the medical tragedy theme is starting to become quite a repetitive and predictable pattern, but I still love this author's prose and the way she captures everyday life shattered by the unthinkable.
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