I loved Still Alice when I read it years ago. I was not nearly as enticed with Left Neglected, because I had a hard time relating to certain aspects of the main character. As a result, I hadn’t paid that much attention to Genova’s follow up novels, but when Caitlin_D described the premise of Every Note Played in her review I was intrigued to see how Genova would explain a woman caring for an ex-husband she still feels so much anger towards. Karina and Richard’s […]
“Every note played is a life and death.”
Lisa Genova is a brilliant writer who uses her real world neuroscience degree to educate and entertain (if you can call these stories entertaining) a mass audience about a variety of brain disorders. Her most famous novel, Still Alice, tackles Alzheimer’s and was turned into a movie but she has also written about Huntington’s, Autism and unilateral neglect. Her latest novel, Every Note Played, focuses on the cheery topic of ALS, or Lou Gherig’s disease and its March 20th release date feels eerily timely next to Stephen Hawking’s […]