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| Original Title: | Inside the O'Briens |
| ISBN: | 147671777X (ISBN13: 9781476717777) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2015) |
Lisa Genova
Hardcover | Pages: 343 pages Rating: 3.99 | 40609 Users | 5404 Reviews
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| Title | : | Inside the O'Briens |
| Author | : | Lisa Genova |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 343 pages |
| Published | : | April 7th 2015 by Gallery Books |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Audiobook. Medical |
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Joe O’Brien 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 family’s lives forever: Huntington’s Disease.Huntington’s is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure. Each of Joe’s four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their father’s disease, and a simple blood test can reveal their genetic fate. 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. Does she want to know? What if she’s gene positive? Can she live with the constant anxiety of not knowing?
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.
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"Huntington's disease is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure --commonly called a family disease.The most important thing about Lisa Genova's new book, "Inside the O'Brians", is that she brings awareness to readers of Huntington's disease --and the many different ways it consumes a family. As Lisa tells the story about The O'Brien family --the reader begins to understand this disease deeper --physically--psychologically--mentally--financially--spirituality--.There areWhere do I start with Lisa Genova's Inside the O'Briens? I'm often faced with that decision when starting a review for a novel I believe brings so much to the table in terms of its insight, relatability, and the discussion it leaves in its wake. In an effort to not spoil anything I will be brief and only highlight the things that I still think about after reading this novel.Joe O'Brien is an officer for the Boston Police Department, husband to Rosie, and father to four offspring when he finds
What a wonderful book. We are introduced to an Irish Catholic family from Boston, the O'Briens. Joe and his wife Rosie have four young adult children, JJ, Meg, Patrick and Katie. Joe has served on the BPD for over 20 years when he begans having problems and is diagnosed with a rare movement disorder, Huntington's Diease. It's a progressive condition with no cure and there's a 50/50 chance of his children having the gene to develop HD. I loved the O'Brien family, well developed characters that I
Imagine you've seemed jittery and moody lately, your speech is slurring occasionally, and man, those involuntary twitches in your face and leg are driving you and those around you batsh%! crazy. These are just some of the symptons of Huntington's Disease, a heritary affliction that lies dormant in you until you are approaching middle age and then gives you 10 years more after that. Ten torturous years, because you will be fully aware of your slide into hell. So by the time you find out you have
I very much enjoyed Genovas earlier novel Still Alice about Alzheimer's and felt that she dealt sensitively and convincingly with the effects it has on all those involved when a diagnosis hits a family. Unfortunately she has not been so successful in her attempts to write the same book again, this time focussing on Huntingtons. I cant help feeling she (or her publishers) decided it would be a good idea to cash in on her earlier success by choosing another devastating disease and finding a story
Three and a half stars.This is a story of how one family reacts when the father, Joe OBrien, a Boston policeman, is diagnosed with Huntingtons disease. That is a bad enough blow to deal with, but there is a 50-50 chance that his four adult children have inherited the gene that will see them fall prey to Huntingtons. JJ is married while Meaghan, Patrick and Katie are all single. They have to decide whether to take the test to find out whether they each have the gene or not.It is obvious there has
Sometimes a book educates you on matters you were unaware of but should not have been - like Huntington's Disease and how it destroys a person in the most cruelest of ways. Reading this was like a slap in the face, how was I so in the dark about this disease? Then again I have a nephrostomy and 99% of people don't know what that is. Lisa Genova did that with Inside the O'Briens, not only a brilliant novel but one that brings awareness to an illness that I would guess not many would know a whole
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