Yunpeng Li Li itibaren Atalaia, State of Alagoas, Brezilya itibaren Atalaia, State of Alagoas, Brezilya

This was an easy, entertaining read. The protagonist is a busy career woman, mother, and wife who develops a condition called "left neglect" after sustaining a head injury in a car accident (while using cell phone), and chronicles her journey learning how to live with the condition, in which she simply fails to notice everything on her left (her left foot, her left hand, the left side of a plate, the left half of a page in a book, etc.). (It sounds like a ridiculous condition and yet it is apparently relatively common....I'm not sure whether there is also such a thing as right neglect...) Anyway, as you can guess from what I've written so far, of course she comes to see that her life was crazy and unsatisfying, and comes to enjoy the small blessings in her new, slowed-down life, including reconciliation with her estranged mother, blah blah blah. I thought it was overdone a bit.... All in all, I preferred the author's first novel, Still Alice, which was about a woman as she grapples with a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Perhaps that one was better because AD is a more common disease and therefore it's easier to relate to.....and it didn't have the "forced happy ending" that Left Neglected has. Which isn't to say that Left Neglected is necessarily unrealistic; it seems quite realistic that someone who developed this condition might indeed subsequently make the life choices that the protagonist makes....only that it still felt a little forced and overdone to me.