![]() ![]() The title is also a metaphor for all the things that the characters in the book are forgetting about, either deliberately or inadvertently, because of the dizzying pace of their overscheduled lives. It can be temporary, or it may improve in increments through rehabilitation. ![]() A patient is entirely unable to perceive anything on the left, including her left arm, leg and facial features, to the point where she has to be reminded to look left, a task not easily achieved. It can happen after a stroke, an aneurysm or traumatic head injury. The title refers to the little-known condition of left side neglect - also called hemispatial or unilateral neglect - which is a result of an injury to the right hemisphere of the brain. If Lisa Genova's objective is to shed light, from inside the brain, on rarely looked at neurological conditions, as she did in her bestselling first novel, ![]()
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