โ Scribed by Lisa Genova
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From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a powerful new novel that does for Huntingtonโs Disease what her debut Still Alice did for Alzheimerโs.
Joe OโBrien is a forty-four-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 familyโs lives forever: Huntingtonโs Disease.
Huntingtonโs is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure. Each of Joeโs four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their fatherโs...
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