Release Date:- 2015-04-07
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A New York Times bestseller āŖ A Library Journal Best Books of 2015 Pick āŖ A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2015 Pick āŖA GoodReads Top Ten Fiction Book of 2015 āŖ A People Magazine Great Read
From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a āheartbreakingā¦very human novelā (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntingtonās disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimerās.
Joe OāBrien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his familyās lives forever: Huntingtonās disease.
Huntingtonās is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure, and each of Joeās four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their fatherās disease. While watching her potential future in her fatherās escalating symptoms, twenty-one-year-old daughter Katie struggles with the questions this test imposes on her young adult life. As Joeās symptoms worsen and heās eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life āat riskā or learn their fate.
Praised for writing that āexplores the resilience of the human spiritā (San Francisco Chronicle), Lisa Genova has once again delivered a novel as powerful and unforgettable as the human insights at its core.