Me Again, Keith Cronin

Me Again by Keith Cronin is a novel that I picked up quite some time ago...it is about a stroke victim and that reminded me of my grandfather.

Started: 7/12/2013
Completed: 7/24/2013
Recommendation:  Great, uplifting story that is well written
Recommended By:  Nobody

Review:

This book is not what I thought it would be.  I was expecting a Rocky Balboa feel-good recovery from stroke story.  What I got was a much more interesting story.  This book focuses on the internal effects caused by a stroke.  Everyone can see the outside damage.  The changes that come inside (not damage) can profoundly effect a person's personality.  It seems obvious that if a stroke can make it hard to walk, it can change the way one thinks or even what one thinks about.  Even fundamental things can be changed.  This book is a hard look at finding out about those changes and learning to get comfortable with them.  As a first person narrative, you really only "get inside the head" of one person, but you can see how he looks at the world in a way that would have been alien to his pre-stroke self.  In the narrator's case, this is broadly a really good thing.   Another character has to decide if she will try to become her old self or embrace the new.  A carefully, well written book that caused me to stop and think more often then just turn the page.  Just the way I like them :).