We usually feature nonfiction books in this newsletter, but this time it's a pair of fiction books: Still Alice and Left Neglected by neuroscientist Lisa Genova. Each centers on a character with a life-changing cognitive impairment. In Still Alice, it's a 50-something woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease. In Left Neglected, it's a young executive and mother with hemispatial neglect. Genova writes fiction to offer an alternative to the "dry and clinical" material usually available on the subjects, and to create a sense of connection with sufferers of these devastating conditions.

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