A Stitch of Time

Zusatztext "Marks's story is humbling and hopeful! a demonstration of the mind's flexibility and resourcefulness to heal! morph and press on! even when met with potentially life-threatening circumstances." Shelf Awareness for Readers Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "An eloquent memoir of a 27 year old actress who suffered a massive brain aneurysm onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and awoke to discover that she had aphasia, a rare condition in which one loses the ability to speak, read and write"--Provided by publisher. Zusammenfassung Readers will be compelled by this illuminating debut memoira captivating ( Kirkus Reviews ) account of one woman's journey to regain her language and identity after a brain aneurysm steals her ability to communicate. 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 updifferent. 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. Soon after! Lauren began a journal! to chronicle her year following the rupture. A Stitch of Time is the remarkable result! an Oliver Sackslike case study of a brain slowly piecing itself back together! featuring 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 grantedreading a book! understanding idioms! even sharing a first kissand begins to reconcile The Girl I Used to Be with The Girl I Am Now. For fans of Brain on Fire and My Stroke of Insight ! the deeply personal and powerful A Stitch of Time is an engrossing ( Publishers Weekly ) journey of self-discovery! resilience! and hope. ...

"Marks's story is humbling and hopeful, a demonstration of the mind's flexibility and resourcefulness to heal, morph and press on, even when met with potentially life-threatening circumstances." —Shelf Awareness for Readers

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

"An eloquent memoir of a 27 year old actress who suffered a massive brain aneurysm onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and awoke to discover that she had aphasia, a rare condition in which one loses the ability to speak, read and write"--Provided by publisher.

Zusammenfassung
ldquo;Readers will be compelled by this illuminating debut memoir…a captivating” (Kirkus Reviews) account of one woman’s journey to regain her language and identity after a brain aneurysm steals her ability to communicate.

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.

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, featuring 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.” For fans of Brain on Fire and My Stroke of Insight, the deeply personal and powerful A Stitch of Time is an “engrossing” (Publishers Weekly) journey of self-discovery, resilience, and hope.