A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language

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A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life

For fans of Brain on Fire and My Stroke of Insight, an incredible first-person account of one womanâ€™s journey to regaining her language and identity after a brain aneurysm affects her ability to communicate.

Lauren Marks was twenty-seven, touring a show in Scotland with her friends, when an aneurysm ruptured in her brain and left her fighting for her life. She woke up in a hospital soon after with serious deficiencies to her reading, speaking, and writing abilities, and an unfamiliar diagnosis: aphasia. This would be shocking news for anyone, but Lauren was a voracious reader, an actress, director, and dramaturg, and at the time of the event, pursuing her PhD. At any other period of her life, this diagnosis would have been a devastating blow. But she woke up...different. The way she perceived her environment and herself had profoundly changed, her entire identity seemed crafted around a language she could no longer access. She returned to her childhood home to recover, grappling with a muted inner monologue and fractured sense of self.

Soon after, Lauren began a journal, to chronicle her year following the rupture. A Stitch of Time is the remarkable result, an Oliver Sacksâ€“like case study of a brain slowly piecing itself back together, featuring clinical research about aphasia and linguistics, interwoven with Laurenâ€™s personal narrative and actual journal entries that marked her progress. Alternating between fascination and frustration, she relearns and re-experiences many of the things we take for grantedâ€”reading a book, understanding idioms, even sharing a â€œfirst kissâ€â€”and begins to reconcile â€œThe Girl I Used to Beâ€ with â€œThe Girl I Am Now.â€ Deeply personal and powerful, A Stitch of Time is an unforgettable journey of self-discovery, resilience, and hope.

Country	USA
Author	Lauren Marks
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781451697612
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	384
PublicationDate	2017-05-02
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2017-05-02
Studio	Simon & Schuster

A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life

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