Lisa Genova. (2015). Inside the O'Briens: A Novel. Gallery Books.

Lisa Genova. 2015. Inside the O'Briens: A Novel. Gallery Books.

Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens: A Novel. Gallery Books, 2015.

Lisa Genova. Inside the O'Briens: A Novel. Gallery Books, 2015.

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   • bioText: Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O'Briens, and Remember. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. She travels worldwide speaking about the neurological diseases she writes about and has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Today, PBS NewsHour, CNN, and NPR. Her TED talk, What You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer's, has been viewed over 2 million times.
     
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A New York Times bestseller ▪ A Library Journal Best Books of 2015 Pick ▪ A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2015 Pick ▪A GoodReads Top Ten Fiction Book of 2015 ▪ A People Magazine Great Read

From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a "heartbreaking...very human novel" (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntington's disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimer's.
Joe O'Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his family's lives forever: Huntington's disease.

Huntington's is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure, and each of Joe's four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their father's disease. While watching her potential future in her father's escalating symptoms, twenty-one-year-old daughter Katie struggles with the questions this test imposes on her young adult life. As Joe's symptoms worsen and he's eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life "at risk" or learn their fate.

Praised for writing that "explores the resilience of the human spirit" (San Francisco Chronicle), Lisa Genova has once again delivered a novel as powerful and unforgettable as the human insights at its core.

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     April 13, 2015
     Neuroscientist and novelist Genova (Still Alice) creates another poignant portrayal of those affected by neurological disorders. Joe O’Brien, a third-generation Irish American and longtime Boston cop, begins experiencing violent rages, sudden falls, and difficulties keeping still. Colleagues think he’s drinking, but Joe denies any problem until his wife, Rosie, insists he see a doctor. Tests reveal Huntington’s Disease, an incurable genetic disorder causing slow degeneration and death. Even worse, Joe and Rosie’s four children each have a 50-50 chance of having Huntington’s themselves. Will ballet dancer Megan, rebellious Patrick, or married firefighter JJ have, and pass along, the gene? How can the youngest sibling, 21-year-old Katie, balance her family’s needs—and her own chance of illness—with her fledgling attempts to craft an adult life beyond the shelter of the O’Briens’ close circle? Does the news require Joe to reinterpret his own mother’s troubled life and death? Narrated through Joe and Katie’s contrasting viewpoints, the novel effectively dramatizes the challenge of an illness that affects several generations simultaneously and demands searing emotional, logistical, and financial choices. Genova’s book will move readers as well as demystify a condition sometimes called “the cruelest disease known to man.”

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     February 15, 2015
     Best-selling neuroscientist-turned-novelist Genova, author of several popular stories based on the experience of suffering debilitating diseases-notably Still Alice (2009), about a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's-now tackles the impact of Huntington's disease on one blue-collar Boston family.Patrol officer Joe O'Brien is third-generation Irish in Charlestown. A tough cop with a soft interior, a loving wife and four adult children, Joe "doesn't do doctors" but is going to have to learn, because there's no dodging the diagnosis heading his way-one that Genova outlines on her opening page: Huntington's is "an inherited neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive loss of voluntary motor control...proceeding inexorably to death in ten to twenty years." Not only is there no cure, but there's a 50 percent chance that Joe's children will carry the gene, too. Genova's straightforward storytelling lays out this unhappy scenario with maximum empathy as she switches between the perspectives of Joe and daughter Katie, a 21-year-old yoga instructor. While the parents worry and the siblings bicker and confront-or don't-their fears and options, Genova conveys the facts of HD through encounters with doctors and genetic counselors, continuing the education as Joe's symptoms intensify and the disease, or its possibility, undermines and redefines jobs, finances and relationships. Minor events do occur, but the stiflingly circular topic of the disease drives everything-Joe's mood swings and suicidal thoughts, his wife's wavering faith and Katie's on-and-off wish to know her own fate. Genova's intention once again is acceptance, and the wrung-out reader bids farewell to the family at a relatively calm and united moment. This journey to a place of mindfulness, while inevitably affecting, often reads like fictionalized campaign literature for a worthy cause.

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     Starred review from March 15, 2015
     

     Genova (Still Alice; Love Anthony) has in her fourth novel elegantly constructed a tale of a Boston police officer who learns that he has Huntington's disease. In his early 40s, Joe O'Brien starts experiencing sudden, violent changes in his temper and muscle movements and is eventually diagnosed with the genetic disease that gets progressively worse and as yet has no cure. Joe's four children each have a 50 percent chance of inheriting the illness, and his youngest daughter, Katie, who is just starting her life as a yoga teacher and with the man she loves, grapples with whether to test for the gene. Genova takes us on Joe's hellish personal journey, alternating between his point of view and Katie's. VERDICT This is a gut-wrenching and memorable read, most similar to Genova's Still Alice in its detailed portrayal of the disintegration and rebuilding of a family in the face of a horrible illness. [See Editors' Spring Picks, LJ 2/15/15, p. 31.]--Mariel Pachucki, Maple Valley, WA

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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