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A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life / Lauren Marks.

by Marks, Lauren.

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Aphasic persons -- United States -- Biography.

Aneurysms -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

Aphasia -- Treatment -- Case studies.

Aneurysms -- Complications -- Case studies.

Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.

View Lauren Marks' talk on YouTube.

9781451697513 (hc.)

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

xvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-358).

One woman's journey to regaining her language and identity after a brain aneurysm affects her ability to communicate. Actress 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 and actress, and at the time of the event, pursuing her PhD. 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. She began a journal, to chronicle her year following the rupture. A case study of a brain slowly piecing itself back together, featuring clinical research about aphasia and linguistics, interwoven with Lauren's personal narrative and 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." An unforgettable journey of self-discovery, resilience, and hope. Lauren Marks is a Los Angeles native and a New York University, Tisch School of the Arts graduate. She is an advocate for those who live with language disorders like aphasia.

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