Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
Auteur van Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke… door Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
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I read this book in two spurts, and between them, my life changed immeasurably. Considering the themes of change and identity shifts, it seems as good a strategy as any.
I happened to read this Outside magazine profile of a climber with PTSD the day I wrapped this up. They pair well.
Christine's language reminded me of Hemingway, in the way it was pared-down and stripped to simple syntax.
If you're interested in a first-person perspective of brain change and trauma, you'll like this. However, it is somewhat oddly paced: think Memento narrated by an MFA.… (meer)
I happened to read this Outside magazine profile of a climber with PTSD the day I wrapped this up. They pair well.
Christine's language reminded me of Hemingway, in the way it was pared-down and stripped to simple syntax.
If you're interested in a first-person perspective of brain change and trauma, you'll like this. However, it is somewhat oddly paced: think Memento narrated by an MFA.… (meer)
The author suffered a stroke at age 33, due to an undiagnosed hole in her heart. While not visibly disabling, she spent long months trying to retrain her brain, and compensate for thoughts she couldn't seem to hold onto. She kept a journal of her recovery, its toll on her marriage, and the forced introspection. Parts of the book are disjointed, and I think she was trying to show us how her brain was working/not working during the recovery. This worked for me, but might not for everybody.
This is saved by its beautiful writing -- she truly is a skilled wordsmith. But as a memoir, it doesn't add up. The balance between medical and personal is off, and she doesn't let us in for some pivotal parts of her life. We don't find out until the epilogue, for instance, that she experienced 10 years of infertility (!) that was magically cured by her stroke (?).
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