Lauren Marks
Autore di A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life
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- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
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- 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: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My… di Lauren Marks
Memoir
this truly remarkable insight into this lady’s recovery process after a brain injury. This really was such an interesting book which Lauren explains all different aspects of what actually happened to her and how she had to have a speech therapist to help her find her voice again. This is one fascinating medical journal
Thank you to the publishers and netgalley for the arc xx
Thank you to the publishers and netgalley for the arc xx
this truly remarkable insight into this lady’s recovery process after a brain injury. This really was such an interesting book which Lauren explains all different aspects of what actually happened to her and how she had to have a speech therapist to help her find her voice again. This is one fascinating medical journal
Thank you to the publishers and netgalley for the arc xx
Thank you to the publishers and netgalley for the arc xx
Lauren Marks was twenty-seven years old when, in the middle of a karaoke performance, an aneurysm burst in her brain. She was lucky to survive, but the damage left her with aphasia: a great difficulty not only in producing coherent speech, but in perceiving just how badly affected her speech was. It also left her unable to read, gave her difficulties in following the speech of others, and even silenced her own inner voice. It also affected her memory. She wasn't exactly afflicted with amnesia, but she found it difficult to bring to mind or emotionally connect with personal memories. Over time, thanks to brain plasticity and speech therapy, much of her facility with words came back, but what she refers to as "the rupture" was clearly not only a physical rupture in her brain, but a discontinuity between the person she used to be and the person she had become.
In this memoir, Marks writes thoughtfully about her experiences after "the rupture," including her time with very little language in her brain, her relationships with the people in her life as she made her recovery, and her musings on language and memory as informed by both her own experiences and what she has learned since about scientific thinking on the subjects. It's all very interesting, and I particularly appreciated how careful she is to acknowledge the fallibility of her own memory while narrating events, and to stress that her experiences of aphasia aren't universal and that the sense those experiences have given her of how language works in the brain isn't definitive. I can't help contrasting that careful, humble, refreshingly open approach with the way Jill Bolte Taylor seemed to want to present her own experiences with neural damage as providing some kind of definitive mystical revelation in My Stroke of Insight, which I have to admit made me a little uncomfortable.
I will also say that Marks' writing is perfectly clear, readable, and fluent. Whether that's a testament to the progress she's made in her recovery, the strategies she uses to compensate for her difficulties, or some excellent editing, I don't know, but I'd suspect it's probably a combination of all three.… (altro)
In this memoir, Marks writes thoughtfully about her experiences after "the rupture," including her time with very little language in her brain, her relationships with the people in her life as she made her recovery, and her musings on language and memory as informed by both her own experiences and what she has learned since about scientific thinking on the subjects. It's all very interesting, and I particularly appreciated how careful she is to acknowledge the fallibility of her own memory while narrating events, and to stress that her experiences of aphasia aren't universal and that the sense those experiences have given her of how language works in the brain isn't definitive. I can't help contrasting that careful, humble, refreshingly open approach with the way Jill Bolte Taylor seemed to want to present her own experiences with neural damage as providing some kind of definitive mystical revelation in My Stroke of Insight, which I have to admit made me a little uncomfortable.
I will also say that Marks' writing is perfectly clear, readable, and fluent. Whether that's a testament to the progress she's made in her recovery, the strategies she uses to compensate for her difficulties, or some excellent editing, I don't know, but I'd suspect it's probably a combination of all three.… (altro)
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