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title: "Left Neglected"
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# Left Neglected

**Brand:** lisa genova
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Left Neglected

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## Customer Reviews

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    A few things are left neglected
  

*by H***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2011*

When I first read Still Alice I couldn't wait for Lisa Genova's sophmore book to come out. Sadly, I find this book not as gripping as Still Alice, though it's along the same track. Genova certainly uses her Harvard degree to write complex novels on nuerosciene related issues.Spoiler alert:I will say this- Genova is an excellent writer. She writes in a very readable way, and very thouroughly develops her main characters. Sarah Nickerson is nothing is not complex. The story is relatable to so many people, especially women- but not just men and women. We race through our lives driven to suceed but sometimes find, usually by accident that our successful lives are being measured on the wrong stick. An unfortunate accident leaves Sarah to face these truths that change her life forever.There are some real life lessons to heed in Genova's book.What I didn't like were several things. First of all this book is MORE than 100 pages to long. About 120 pages, and it's only a 326 page book. The middle section becomes challenging. Sarah's character is negative and the book drones on for hundreds of pages without any human growth. Now, I understand the negativity. Sarah has been handicapped and obviously that's not something that someone can easily swallow. However, there is some accute denial (also natural) that makes the negativity a conflict though.Even though all is righted in the end I feel that Sarah is unfair to her mother. I also feel like Sarah is a little hypocritical. She's very judgemental at the start, but even after her accident she stays that way. I get it- trust me- but still. It's over the top. Sarah is in the rat race, and trying to keep up with the Joneses- but it's TOO much. Sarah is so arrogant, and materialistic that I find it very distracting and it diminishes her character. Honestly, I started to really feel like it was just a way for Genova to add pages to the book, and ramble on about Harvard and Boston and how busy Bostonians are as if people elsewhere in the country aren't busy. It was too smug, and again - at times just seemed to be the author more than Sarah.The accident occurs on page 65, but I don't believe Sarah has any humbling moments until page 200. As Sarah starts to see that she doesn't want the fast paced life she tries to get her husband to envision a life elsewhere. She'd had the clarity of the accident to guide her to this. However, pre-accident she would have never understood this. Yet, even though he husband is now supporting her, but also acting as a caregiver she is very frustrated and mad when he doesn't jump on the band wagon. Sarah really has to work hard to appreciate her mother. She was neglected by her mother as a child- but in many ways she has neglected her own children. And even after the accident she isn't overly involved with her kids. She's still very self-centered. I honestly grew tired of reading page after page about their awesome coffee maker, and the shoes she has, and her nice clothes, and the fact that they have five remote controls.....Even after the accident Sarah's tone and materialism is still very present. It's a turn off. A job falls into her lap (Suprise!) but she expects her husband just to take a leap of faith without having a job for him. Poor Bob! He's working so hard to keep the family afloat, he's helping her do daily functions, all while barely holding onto a job, and he's clearly the more nurturing parent.In the end I absolutely rooter for Sarah, but she's not someone I would be friends with. I didn't mind her internal struggle, and at times you do feel she's a great mother. She has a great marriage with Bob. But, she's a little selfish and I just wish her accident has humbled her more than it did. I think more than just discovering you want a faster paced life you should learn to discover we don't need all the "things" either. I am not entirely sure this was realized by Sarah.Overall, way to long, very predicatble, and because of Sarah's attitude (even post accident she is referring to her son's teachers shoes as ugly. Which initially is just a direction for her to dump some hate but then it keep up even later) it fell short of being inspirational for me.I'm torn now on Genova. Still Alice is a great book, but I'm not sure if Genova will stay on my "must read" list anymore. Maybe I'll give her another chance- but if she continues to fill up pages with materialistic dronings just to fill up pages- I think I'll pass.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Another good book from Lisa Genova
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2011*

I was a big fan of Lisa Genova's novel, 
  
Still Alice







  
  
     which was told from the point of view of a successful and respected professor at Harvard who develops early onset Alzheimer's. I thought that was a brilliant book and when I was done I had a better idea of what that disease was like, both for patient and caretaker. And I say that as someone who's father recently passed away from the disease - it's horrible, and more so when it strikes someone fairly young.In this book, Genova takes on Left Neglect, which is a brain dysfunction that leaves the sufferer unable to see or sense their left side. They are often not aware they have this since to them they are seeing the complete picture.  This is obviously tremendously debilitating on so many levels. The person afflicted often cannot walk or move effectively and simple tasks like reading or writing become impossible.In this novel, Sarah is a 37 year married woman with 3 small children. She is a graduate of Harvard business school as is her husband Bob. They both have high stress and high paying jobs that require a lot of their time. They have a nanny taking care of their children although they try to share at least some of their day with these kids.While on the phone driving in her car Sarah gets into an accident. She wakes up in the hospital only to find out that she now has Left Neglect, and this story is about her coming to deal with this horrible condition and how it changes her own life and that of her family.  We see that sometimes out of tragedy and misfortune comes some good - and in this case Sarah has to learn to slow her life down and appreciate what she's had all along.I really enjoyed this book and as in Still Alice, Lisa Genova really brings home what this condition does to its sufferer. Both of these books almost read like nonfiction and I mean that as compliment - they not only tell a good story but you learn something as well.Recommended, and I look forward to her next book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    An Uplifting Novel For Disabled People
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 29, 2020*

Few will have heard of the brain injury Left Neglect, which occurs when the right sight of the brain is injured so that it does not acknowledge the existence of the right side of the body, be it eye, arm or leg.Author Lisa Genova covers this well in the story of Sarah Nickerson, a high-powered executive with a busy husband Bob and three children. Her eventful life has made her lose track of her mother.All this changes when a car accident while on the phone leaves her with Left Neglect. Typically, at first, she expects to be back at work very shortly, but eventually, she realises just how serious her condition is. Her mother becomes a vital part of her life again, and her bond is restored.Sarah accepts her condition, but a visit to her and Bob's favourite ski resort of Vermont changes her perspective as she realises that it is important to work within one's abilities, not disabilities.This is a most uplifting story, especially for one with a disability. It reminds us that if we just change our targets, we can have a more fulfilling life, perhaps even more so than before.

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