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A Stitch of Time

Name: A Stitch of Time
Brand: Simon & Schuster
SKU: 9781451697605
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Contributors:

Lauren Marks

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Medical

Book Subcategory:

Personal Memoirs, Medical (Incl. Patients), Neuroscience

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Release Date:

2018-05-01

ISBN 13:

9781451697605

Weight:

0.8 lbs

Size:

8.30 x 5.50 x 1.20 inches

Pages:

384

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Description

A Stitch of Time: A Journey Through Aphasia and Brain Recovery

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 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 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.

A Clinical Case Study Interwoven with Personal Narrative

Soon after, Lauren began a journal to chronicle her year following the rupture. A Stitch of Time is the remarkable result, an Oliver Sacks-like case study of a brain slowly piecing itself back together. The memoir features clinical research about aphasia and linguistics, interwoven with Lauren's 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 granted—reading a book, understanding idioms, even sharing a "first kiss"—and begins to reconcile "The Girl I Used to Be" with "The Girl I Am Now."

What Makes This Memoir Compelling

Kirkus Reviews calls it "a captivating account of one woman's journey to regain her language and identity after a brain aneurysm steals her ability to communicate." Publishers Weekly describes it as "engrossing." For fans of Brain on Fire and My Stroke of Insight, this deeply personal memoir offers a unique perspective on neurological recovery.

The book combines personal storytelling with neuroscience insights, making it valuable for medical professionals, patients with language disorders, families of brain injury survivors, and anyone interested in the resilience of the human brain.

About the Author

Lauren Marks is a Los Angeles native and a New York University, Tisch School of the Arts graduate. She spent a decade in professional theater and pursued a PhD at The Graduate Center at City University of New York. Lauren was an Emerging Voices Fellow for PEN Center USA. She has been awarded grants from the Bread Loaf Writing Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VCCA France, Ragdale, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yaddo, and is an active advocate for those who live with language disorders like aphasia. A Stitch of Time is her first book.

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A Stitch of Time: A Journey Through Aphasia and Brain Recovery

A Clinical Case Study Interwoven with Personal Narrative

What Makes This Memoir Compelling

About the Author

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A Stitch of Time: A Journey Through Aphasia and Brain Recovery

A Clinical Case Study Interwoven with Personal Narrative

What Makes This Memoir Compelling

About the Author

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