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Inside the O'Briens Author: Lisa Genova

ISBN: 9781476717777 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 352 Published: 7 April 2015 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 21.8 x 14.7 x 2.8 Description: A New York Times bestseller A Library Journal Best Books of 2015 Pick A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2015 Pick A GoodReads Top Ten Fiction Book of 2015 A People Magazine Great Read From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a heartbreaking very human novel (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntington s disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimer s. Joe O Brien 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 family s lives forever: Huntington s disease. Huntington s is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment an...

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